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Modern Scala Projects
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Modern Scala Projects

by Ilango gurusamy
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
334 pages
8h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Questions

Before readers head to the next chapter, we invite readers to attempt an upgrade on the flight performance model. The idea is this—feed in a couple more predictors that enhance the flight delay ML process in a way that makes predictions deeper and more incisive. 

Here are a few questions to open further vistas of learning:

  1. What is a parquet file and what are its advantages, especially when a dataset becomes larger, and data shuffling between nodes becomes necessary?
  2. What are the advantages of data compressed in a columnar format?
  1. Occasionally, you might run into this error: "Unable to find encoder stored in Dataset. Primitive types (Int, String, and so on) and Product types (case classes) are supported by importing spark.implicits._ ...
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ISBN: 9781788624114