Scala for Machine Learning

Apache Spark

Apache Spark is a fast and general-purpose cluster computing system, initially developed as AMPLab/UC Berkeley as part of the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley). It provides high-level APIs for the following programming languages that make large and concurrent parallel jobs easy to write and deploy [12:11]:

• Scala: http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/index.html
• Java: http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/java/index.html
• Python: http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/index.html

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The core element of Spark is a resilient distributed dataset (RDD), which is a collection ...