Spark for Machine Learning using Python and MLlib

https://www.dezyre.com/article/spark-mllib-for-scalable-machine-learning-with-spark/339

MLlib is Spark’s machine learning (ML) library. Its goal is to make practical machine learning scalable and easy. At a high level, it provides tools such as:

• ML Algorithms: common learning algorithms such as classification, regression, clustering, and collaborative filtering
• Featurization: feature extraction, transformation, dimensionality reduction…