[Activity] Running the Similar Movies Script using Spark's Cluster Manager - Machine Learning and Big Data Training with Frank Kane

[Activity] Running the Similar Movies Script using Spark’s Cluster Manager

November 5, 2019

Back to: Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python – Hands On!

Item-Based Collaborative Filtering in Spark, cache(), and persist()

Getting Started with Spark
- Introduction
- How to Use This Course
- Warning about Java 11 and Spark 3!
- [Activity] Getting Set Up: Installing Python, a JDK, Spark, and its Dependencies.
- [Activity] Installing the MovieLens Movie Rating Dataset
- [Activity] Run your first Spark program! Ratings histogram example.
Spark Basics and Simple Examples
- Introduction to Spark
- The Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD)
- Ratings Histogram Walkthrough
- Key/Value RDD’s, and the Average Friends by Age Example
- [Activity] Running the Average Friends by Age Example
- Filtering RDD’s, and the Minimum Temperature by Location Example
- [Activity]Running the Minimum Temperature Example, and Modifying it for Maximums
- [Activity] Running the Maximum Temperature by Location Example
- [Activity] Counting Word Occurrences using flatmap()
- [Activity] Improving the Word Count Script with Regular Expressions
- [Activity] Sorting the Word Count Results
- Assignment: Tally up amount spent by customer using Spark
- Assignment Solution
- Assignment: Sort your results by amount spent per customer
Advanced Examples of Spark Programs
- [Activity] Find the Most Popular Movie
- [Activity] Use Broadcast Variables to Display Movie Names Instead of ID Numbers
- Find the Most Popular Superhero in a Social Graph
- [Activity] Run the Script – Discover Who the Most Popular Superhero is!
- Superhero Degrees of Separation: Introducing Breadth-First Search
- Superhero Degrees of Separation: Accumulators, and Implementing BFS in Spark
- [Activity] Superhero Degrees of Separation: Review the Code and Run it
- Item-Based Collaborative Filtering in Spark, cache(), and persist()
- [Activity] Running the Similar Movies Script using Spark’s Cluster Manager
- [Exercise] Improve the Quality of Similar Movies
Running Spark on a Cluster
- Introducing Elastic MapReduce
- [Activity] Setting up your AWS / Elastic MapReduce Account and Setting Up PuTTY
- Partitioning
- Create Similar Movies from One Million Ratings – Part 1
- [Activity] Create Similar Movies from One Million Ratings – Part 2
- Create Similar Movies from One Million Ratings – Part 3
- Troubleshooting Spark on a Cluster
- More Troubleshooting, and Managing Dependencies
SparkSQL, DataFrames, and DataSets
- Introducing SparkSQL
- Executing SQL commands and SQL-style functions on a DataFrame
- Using DataFrames instead of RDD’s
Other Spark Technologies and Libraries
- Introducing MLLib
- [Activity] Using MLLib to Produce Movie Recommendations
- Analyzing the ALS Recommendations Results
- Using DataFrames with MLLib
- Spark Streaming and GraphX
You Made It! Where to Go from Here.
- Learning More about Spark and Data Science
- Continue your Learning Journey

[Activity] Running the Similar Movies Script using Spark’s Cluster Manager

[Activity] Running the Similar Movies Script using Spark’s Cluster Manager

Item-Based Collaborative Filtering in Spark, cache(), and persist()

Introducing Elastic MapReduce