Building a real-time big data pipeline 9: Spark MLlib, Regression, Python

Apache Spark expresses parallelism by three sets of APIs – DataFrames, DataSets and RDDs (Resilient Distributed Dataset).Originally, spark was designed to read and write data from and to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). A Hadoop cluster is composed of a network of master, worker and client nodes that orchestrate and execute the various jobs across
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Building a real-time big data pipeline 8: Spark MLlib, Regression, R

Apache Spark MLlib is a distributed framework that provides many utilities useful for machine learning tasks, such as: Classification, Regression, Clustering, Dimentionality reduction and, Linear algebra, statistics and data handling. R is a popular statistical programming language with a number of packages that support data processing and machine learning tasks. To address R’s scalability issue, the
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