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Holden Karau
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Holden Karau is a software development engineer and is active in the open source. She has worked on a variety of search, classification, and distributed systems problems at IBM, Alpine, Databricks, Google, Foursquare, and Amazon. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a bachelor's of mathematics degree in computer science. Other than software, she enjoys playing with fire and hula hoops, and welding.
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Basic statistics


Let's read the car mileage data and then compute some basic statistics. In Spark 2.0.0, DataFrameReader has the capability to read CSV files and create Datasets. And the Dataset has the describe() function, which calculates the count, mean, standard deviation, min, and max values. For correlation and covariance, we use the stat.corr() and stat.cov() methods. Spark 2.0.0 Datasets have made our statistics work a lot easier.

Now let's run the program, parse the code, and compare the results.

The code files are in fdps-v3/code and the data files in fdps-v3/data. You can run the code either from a Scala IDE or just from the Spark shell startup.

Start the Spark shell from the bin directory where you have installed Spark:

/Volumes/sdxc-01/spark-2.0.0/bin/spark-shell

Inside the shell, you'll find this command:

load /Users/ksankar/fdps-v3/code/ML01v2.scala

This command loads the source as follows:

It creates the ML01v2 object. To run the object, use the following command:

ML01v2.main...
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Holden Karau is a software development engineer and is active in the open source. She has worked on a variety of search, classification, and distributed systems problems at IBM, Alpine, Databricks, Google, Foursquare, and Amazon. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a bachelor's of mathematics degree in computer science. Other than software, she enjoys playing with fire and hula hoops, and welding.
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