Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x

Introduction to Large-Scale Machine Learning and Spark

"Information is the oil of the 21^st century, and analytics is the combustion engine." 

                                                                                                         --Peter Sondergaard, Gartner Research

By 2018, it is estimated that companies will spend $114 billion on big data-related projects, an increase of roughly 300%, compared to 2013 (https://www.capgemini-consulting.com/resource-file-access/resource/pdf/big_data_pov_03-02-15.pdf). Much of this increase in expenditure is due to how much data is being created and how we are better able to store such data by leveraging distributed filesystems such as Hadoop.

However, collecting the data is only half the ...