javaone 2016: getting started with apache spark: use scala, java, python, or all of them?

David TaiebSTSM - IBM Cloud Data ServicesDeveloper advocate [email protected]

My boss wants me to work on Apache Spark: should I use Scala, Java or Python or a combination of the three?Java One 2016, San Francisco

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Objectives

By the end of this session, you should be able to:– Have Basic knowledge of Apache Spark (at least enough to get

you started)– Understand key differences between Java, Scala and Python– Better informed about deciding which language to use– Understand the role of the Notebook in quickly building data

solution.


Let’s start with a story…

DisclaimerAll characters and events depicted in this Story are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to actual use cases, events or persons is actually intentional


Meet Ben “the developer”

• Hold a master degree in computer science• 10 year experience, 6 years with the company• Full stack Web developer• Languages of choice: Java, Node.js, HTML5/CSS3• Data: No SQL (Cloudant, Mongo), relational• Protocols: REST, JSON, MQTT• No major experience with Big data

Favorite Quote:“The Best Line of Code is the One I Didn't Have to

Write!”


Meet Natasha “the data scientist”

• Hold a PHD in data science• 5 year experience, 2 years with the company• Experienced in Python and R• Expert in Machine Learning and Data visualization• Software engineering is not her thing

Favorite Quote:“In God we trust.

All others bring data”W. Edwards Deming


Surprise meeting with VP of development

We have an urgent need for our marketing departmentto build an application that can provide real-time sentiment analysis on Twitter data

courtesy of http://linkq.com.vn/


Key Constraints

• You only have 6 weeks to build the application• Target consumer is the LOB user: must be easy to use even for

non technical people• Web interface: should be accessible from a standard browser

(desktop or mobile)• It must scale out of the box: I want you to use Apache Spark


Some learning to do

What exactly is Apache Spark?


What is Apache spark ?

Spark is an open sourcein-memory

computing framework for distributed data processing and

iterative analysis on massive data volumes


Spark Core Libraries

general compute engine, handles distributed task dispatching, scheduling and basic I/O functions

Spark SQL

executes SQL statements

performs streaming

analytics using micro-batches

common machine learning and

statistical algorithmsdistributed graph

processing framework

Spark Streaming

MllibMachine Learning

GraphXGraph

Spark Core


Spark is evolved quickly and has strong tractionSpark is one of the most active open source projects

Interest over time (Google Trends)

Source: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=apache%20spark&cmpt=q&tz=http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=apache+spark&l=

Job Trends (Indeed.com)

https://www.google.com/trends/explore


Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs)• A collection of elements that Spark works on in parallel• May be kept in memory or on disk• Applications can also explicitly tell Spark to

cache an RDD, which is great for iterative algorithms• An RDD contains the “raw data”, plus the function

to compute it • Fault-tolerance: if any partition of an RDD is lost, it will automatically be

recomputed using the transformations that originally created it

RDD built from a Java collection

RDD built from an external dataset(local FS, HDFS, Hbase,…)


RDD’s fault tolerance scenario

13

RDD1

Map Transformation

Data Node A

File Input Split 1

File Input Split 2

File Input Split 3

RDD1

RDD1

RDD2

RDD2

ReduceTransformation

RDD3

RDD3

filterTransformation

Data Node B


Spark SQL and Data Frames• Spark’s interface for working with structured and semi-structured data

• Ability to load from a verity of data sources (parquet, JSON, Hive)• Supports SQL syntax for both JDBC/ODBC connectors• Special RDD tooling (Join between RDD and an SQL table, Expose UDF’s)

• DataFrames• A Data Frame is a distributed collection of data organized into named columns.• It is conceptually equivalent to a table in a relational database• DataFrames can be constructed from a wide array of sources such as: structured data

files, tables in Hive, external databases, or existing RDDs• Provide better performance than RDD thanks to Spark SQL’s catalyst query optimizer


Consuming Spark

15

Spark Application(driver)

Master(cluster Manager)

Worker Node

Worker Node

Worker Node

Worker Node

…

Spark Cluster

Kernel

Master(cluster Manager)

Worker Node

Worker Node

…Spark Cluster

Notebook Server

Browser

Http/WebSockets

Kernel Protocol

Batch Job(Spark-Submit)

Interactive Notebook

• RDD Partitioning• Task packaging and

dispatching• Worker node

scheduling


IBM’s commitment to Spark

• Contribute to the Core• Spark Technology Cluster (STC)• Open source SystemML

• Foster Community• Educate 1M+ data scientists and engineers• Sponsor AMPLab

IBM Analytics for Apache Spark

• IBM Analytics for Apache Spark Managed Service• www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/cloud-data-services/spark-as-a-service

IBM Data Science Experience

• DataScience Experience: • datascience.ibm.com

IBM Packages for Apache Spark

• IBM Packages for Apache Spark: • ibm.biz/spark-kit


Ben and Natasha start brainstorming

• I’ll work on data acquisition from Twitter and enrichment with sentiment analysis scores using Spark Streaming

• I know Java very well, but I don’t have time to learn Python.

• However, I am willing to learn Scala if that helps improve my productivity

• I’ll perform the data exploration and analysis

• I know Python and R, but am not familiar enough with Java or Scala

• I like pandas and numpy. I’m ok to learn Spark but expect the same level of apis

• I need to work iteratively with the data


More learning

What exactly is a Notebook?


What is a Notebook

Text, Annotations

Code, Data

Visualizations, Widgets, Output

• Web based UI for running apache spark console commands

• Easy, no install spark accelerator

• Best way to start working with spark


What is Jupyter?

with a “y”, clever ah? Browser

Kernel

Code Output

https://www.bluetrack.com/uploads/items_images/kernel-of-corn-stress-balls1_thumb.jpg?r=1

Look! Apache Toree for Spark

"Open source, interactive data science and scientific computing"

– Formerly IPython– Large, open, growing community and ecosystem

Very popular– “~2 million users for IPython” [1]

– $6m in funding in 2015 [3]

– 200 contributors to notebook subproject alone [4]

– 275,000 public notebooks on GitHub [2]


Language war?

Likes ScalaLikes Python

Easy to learn Scala has many powerful features that may be hard to learn, but I only want to use the features that are similar to Java

Fairly Easy once you get familiar with Python Idiosyncrasies

Performance Scala is super fast, because it runs in the JVMYeah, Python is interpreted and slower, but there are ways to optimize when needed

Ecosystem Scala ecosystem is small but can reuse Java ecosystem as it is fully interoperable with Java

Statistics: Pandas, Numpy, matplotlibMachine Learning: scikit-learn, PyML

Tooling IntelliJ, Scala IDE for Eclipse PyCharm, PyDev (Eclipse)

Interactive Scala repl (Console), Scala Notebook for Spark (Limited viz libraries)

Python interpreter, Python Notebook (Jupyter, Zeppelin) provide great viz libs


Scala vs Java• Less Verbosepublic class Circle{ private double radius; private double xCenter; private double yCenter; public Circle(double radius,double xCenter,

double yCenter){this.radius = radius;this.xCenter = xCenter;this.yCenter = yCenter;

} public void setRadius(double radius){

this.radius=radius;} public double getRadius(){return radius;} public void setXCenter(double xCenter){

this.xCenter=xCenter;} public double getXCenter(){return xCenter;} public void setYCenter(double yCenter){

this.yCenter=yCenter;} public double getYCenter(){return yCenter;}}

Java

class Circle(var radius:Double, var xCenter:Double, var yCenter:Double

)

Scala

Define a Class with a few fields


Scala vs Java• Less Verbose• Mixes OOP and FP

Sort a list of circles by radius size and by center abscissa Collections.sort(circles, new Comparator<Circle>() { public int compare(Circle a, Circle b) { return a.getRadius()-b.getRadius() }});Collections.sort(circles, new Comparator<Circle>() { public int compare(Circle a, Circle b) { return a.getXCenter()-b.getXCenter(); }});

circles.sortBy( c=>(c.radius,c.xCenter))

ScalaJava 7 and below

circles .sort(Comparator.comparing(Circle::getRadius()) .thenComparing(Circle::getXCenter())

Java 8


Scala vs Java• Less Verbose• Mixes OOP and FP• Concurrency: Actors and Futures

class JavaOneActor extends Actor { def receive = { case ”version" => println(”JavaOne 2016")

case “location” => println(“San Francisco”) case _ => println(”Sorry, I didn’t get that") }}

object JavaOneActorMain extends App { val system = ActorSystem(”JavaOne”) val actor= system.actorOf(Props[JavaOneActor],name=”JavaOne") actor ! ”version" actor ! ”location” actor ! “Is it raining?”}


Scala vs Java• Less Verbose• Mixes OOP and FP• Actors• Better type system

• Parameterized Types• Abstract Types• Compound Types• Singleton Types• Tuples Types

• Function Types• Lambdas Types• Self-Recursive Types• Functors• Monads


Scala vs Java• Less Verbose• Mixes OOP and FP• Actors• Better type system• Runs as fast

• Scala compiles into Java Bytecode • Full interoperability with Java• Runs in the JVM• Of course, algorithm and optimizations matters


Scala vs Java• Less Verbose• Mixes OOP and FP• Actors• Better type system• Runs as fast• Some features can be confusing

• SBT looks like black magic• Everything is a function: easy to write cryptic code• Implicits• Currying• Partial functions• Partially applied functions

courtesy of http://www.codeodor.com/


Let’s look at an example Spark Application

The world famous Word Count!


Java

JavaRDD<String> textFile = sc.textFile("hdfs://...");JavaRDD<String> words = textFile.flatMap(new FlatMapFunction<String, String>() { public Iterable<String> call(String s) { return Arrays.asList(s.split(" ")); }});JavaPairRDD<String, Integer> pairs = words.mapToPair(new PairFunction<String, String, Integer>() { public Tuple2<String, Integer> call(String s) { return new Tuple2<String, Integer>(s, 1); }});JavaPairRDD<String, Integer> counts = pairs.reduceByKey(new Function2<Integer, Integer, Integer>() { public Integer call(Integer a, Integer b) { return a + b; }});counts.saveAsTextFile("hdfs://...");

Create RDD from a file on the hadoop cluster

New RDD made of all words in the files

For each word create a tuple (word,1)

Aggregate all the results, using the word as the key

Save the results back to the hadoop cluster


Scala

val textFile = sc.textFile("hdfs://...")val counts = textFile.flatMap(line => line.split(" ")) .map(word => (word, 1)) .reduceByKey(_ + _)counts.saveAsTextFile("hdfs://...")







Python

text_file = sc.textFile("hdfs://...")counts = text_file.flatMap(lambda line: line.split(" ")) \ .map(lambda word: (word, 1)) \ .reduceByKey(lambda a, b: a + b)counts.saveAsTextFile("hdfs://...")







OK, let’s agree on the architecture

Watson Tone Analyzer

Input Stream

Enrich data with Emotion Tone Scores

Processed data

Notebook

Agree to disagree on the Language


Dividing the tasks

• Implement a Spark Streaming connector to Twitter

• Call Watson Tone Analyzer for each tweets

• Return a Spark DataFrame with the tweets enriched with Tone scores

• Code written in Scala, delivered as a Jar• Will test in Scala Notebook

• Works in a Python Notebook• Load the twitter data with Tone score from

a persisted store• Perform the data exploration and analysis:

trending hashtags and sentiments• Produce visualizations to LOB Users


A word on Watson Tone Analyzer• Uses linguistic analysis to detect 3 types of tones: Emotion, Social Tendencies and Language styles• Available as a cloud service on IBM Bluemix

Input

http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/tone-analyzer.html

Results


How is Ben doing?

Spark Streaming to Twitter

Get Watson Tone sentiment scores

Enrich Tweets with new Scores

Make spark Dataframe available

ssc = new StreamingContext( sc, Seconds(5) )ssc.addStreamingListener( new StreamingListener ) val keys = config.getConfig("tweets.key").split(",");val stream = org.apache.spark.streaming.twitter.TwitterUtils.createStream( ssc, None ); val tweets = stream.filter { status =>

Option(status.getUser).flatMap[String] { u => Option(u.getLang)

}.getOrElse("").startsWith("en") && CharMatcher.ASCII.matchesAllOf(status.getText) && ( keys.isEmpty || keys.exists{status.getText.contains(_)

})...

Create a Spark StremingContext with a 5 sec batch window

Create a Twitter Stream

Filter any tweet that are not in English or that do not match the word filters


How is Ben doing?Spark Streaming to

TwitterGet Watson Tone sentiment scores



case class DocumentTone( document_tone: Sentiment )case class Sentiment(tone_categories: Seq[ToneCategory]);…val sentimentResults: String = EntityEncoder[String].toEntity("{\"text\": " + JSONObject.quote( status.text ) + "}" ).flatMap { entity => val s = broadcastVar.value.get("watson.tone.url").get + "/v3/tone?version=" + broadcastVar.value.get("watson.api.version").get val toneuri: Uri = Uri.fromString( s ).getOrElse( null ) client( Request( method = Method.POST, uri = toneuri, headers = …, body = entity.body))

.flatMap { response => if (response.status.code == 200 ) { response.as[String] } else { println("Error received from Watson Tone Analyzer.”) null } } }.run //Return Sentiment object pickled from response

upickle.read[DocumentTone](sentimentResults).document_tone

Call the Watson Tone Analyzer Service using a POST Request

Pickle the JSON Response and return a DocumentTone Object

Define the Sentiment Data Model






lazy val client = PooledHttp1Client()val rowTweets = tweets.map(status=> {

val sentiment = ToneAnalyzer.computeSentiment( client, status, broadcastVar )

var colValues = Array[Any]( status.getUser.getName, //author status.getCreatedAt.toString, //date status.getUser.getLang, //Lang status.getText, //text Option(status.getGeoLocation).map{ _.getLatitude}.getOrElse(0.0), //lat Option(status.getGeoLocation).map{_.getLongitude}.getOrElse(0.0) //long

) var scoreMap = getScoreMap(sentiment)

colValues = colValues ++ ToneAnalyzer.sentimentFactors.map { f => round(f) * 100.0}//Return [Row, (sentiment, status)](Row(colValues.toArray:_*),(sentiment, status))

}) Enrich the Tweets with Sentiment Scores, returns a Row Object






def createTwitterDataFrames(sc: SparkContext) : (SQLContext, DataFrame) = { if ( workingRDD.count <= 0 ){ println("No data receive. Please start the Twitter stream again to collect data") return null } try{ val df = sqlContext.createDataFrame( workingRDD, schemaTweets ) df.registerTempTable("tweets") println("A new table named tweets with " + df.count() + " records has been correctly created and can be accessed through the SQLContext variable") println("Here's the schema for tweets") df.printSchema() (sqlContext, df) }catch{ case e: Exception => {logError(e.getMessage, e ); return null} } }

Transform the RDD of Enriched Tweets to a DataFrame

Display the DataFrame Schema


How’s Natasha doing?Load the Tweets

from clusterCompute the distribution

of SentimentsCompute top 5

hashtagsCompute aggregate Tone

scores for each 5 top hashtags

Load the Tweets data from a parquet file in Object Storage

Register a Temp SQL Table so it can be queried later on







Build an array that contains the number of tweets where score is greater than 60%







Creates a flat Map of all the words in the tweets and filter to keep only the hashtags

Map then Reduce to count the occurrences of each hashtag







Create RDD from tweets dataframe

Keep only the entries in the top 10

Index by Tag-Tone







Count the occurrences for each score

Count the tone average for each tag and count

Final Reduce to get the data the way we want it for display


How good is Python at handling data?Given the following quarterly sales series

Year Quarter Revenue

Return a list that contains the revenue for a specific quarter, 0 if not defined. e.g.: 1st Quarter: [8977551.03, 6405575.14, 2401247.98, 1877666.79]4th Quarter: [9179464.4, 6717172.01, 2694937.3, 0]

Let’s look at a simple task

Scala

Python


Let’s take a look at the application


Meeting back with the VP

This is great, but why do I need to run 2 notebooks – one in Scala and one in Python? Please Fix it!


Can’t we both get along?• It would be great if we could run Scala code from a Python Notebook• And be able to transfer variables between the 2 languages

Open Source Pixiedust Python library let’s us do just that

https://github.com/ibm-cds-labs/pixiedust


New Version with Scala mix-in


What about the LOB User?

courtesy: http://www.flickr.com

C-Suite executive need to be able to run the application from Notebook, select filters and see real-time charts without writing code!


Embedded application with Pixiedust plugin


Conclusion

• Programming languages are just tools, you need to choose the right one for you (the programmer) and the task:• Scala is better suited for engineering work that

involves large, reusable components• Python is the language of choice for data scientists

• If you are starting with Spark and just want to play:• Start local: no need for a big cluster yet, get installed

and started in minutes• Use the language you are most familiar with, or is

easiest to learn• Use Notebooks to learn the APIs


Resources• http://programming-scala.org• http://python.org• http://spark.apache.org• www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/cloud-data-services/spark-as-a-service • http://datascience.ibm.com • http://ibm.biz/spark-kit• www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/tone-analyzer.html • developer.ibm.com

/clouddataservices/2016/01/15/real-time-sentiment-analysis-of-twitter-hashtags-with-spark/

• developer.ibm.com/clouddataservices/start-developing-with-spark-and-notebooks/ • www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/spark/• github.com/ibm-cds-labs/spark.samples• github.com/ibm-cds-labs/pixiedust

http://programming-scala.org/

http://python.org/

http://spark.apache.org/

http://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/cloud-data-services/spark-as-a-service

http://datascience.ibm.com/

http://ibm.biz/spark-kit






https://developer.ibm.com/clouddataservices/2016/01/15/real-time-sentiment-analysis-of-twitter-hashtags-with-spark/




https://developer.ibm.com/clouddataservices/start-developing-with-spark-and-notebooks/



http://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/spark/









Questions!

David [email protected]@DTAIEB55

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