Data Science

Kaggle Bosch competition using Apache Spark
Apache Spark for Kaggle competitions I competed in Kaggle Bosch competition to predict the failures during the production lines. As described in another post, I decided…

Build and install Spark on Linux platform.
Build and install Spark on a Linux platform Here a short guide to build, install and configure Apache Spark on a Linux platform. You can decide…

Scala project under IntelliJ IDEA
Setup of a scala project using IntelliJ IDEA I suppose you have already downloaded and installed the community edition of IntelliJ IDEA from this link, that…

Spark code snippets
A growing post which gathers short pieces of code Let’s suppose spark to be an opened spark session. # Open a spark session spark = SparkSession…

Spark and XGBoost using Scala
Spark and XGBoost using Scala language Recently XGBoost project released a package on github where it is included interface to scala, java and spark (more info…

PySpark for RedHat Kaggle competition
Using PySpark for RedHat Kaggle competition Redhat Kaggle competition is not so prohibitive from a computational point of view or data management. The use of Pandas…