Repository
https://github.com/yashwanth2804/Spark-IMDB-Graph
What Will I Learn?
- You will learn about graphs and graph algorithms
- You will learn how to use the Databricks cloud notebook
Requirements
- A laptop or pc which has an internet connection
Difficulty
- Intermediate
Tutorial Contents
Graph Analytics on IMDB Top 250 movies - Part 2
Tutorial structure
- Graphs and Graphs Algorithms
1.1 Graphs
1.2 Algorithms
1.2.1 Breadth-first search (BFS)
1.2.2 Connected components
1.2.3 Label propagation
1.2.4 PageRank
1.2.5 Shortest paths
1.2.6 Triangle counting - DATABRICKS
2.1 Creating an account
2.2 Spinning up a new cluster
2.3 Creating a new notebook
2.4 Uploading a file to a cloud
2.5 Loading a CSV file
2.6 Exploring Spark-UI
2.7 Display Html in a notebook
1.Graphs and Graphs Algorithms
1.1 Graphs
Graphs are also treated as "Networks" / "Relations" in computer terminology.The main abstraction of the Graph
is node
and edge
.If you think in terms of social connections, peoples are nodes and their relations are edges. In the case of flights scenario, nodes
will be airports and flights will be edges
.Sometimes nodes
also known as vertex
and edges
as links
.
Fig: Edges and links of the graph
A distinction is made between undirected graphs, where edges link two vertices symmetrically, and directed graphs, where edges, then called arrows, link two vertices asymmetrically. In our Graph analytics further, we are employing only undirected graphs
, means if actor1
knows actor2
then actor2
also knows actor1
.
fig: Directed and undirected graphs
1.2 Alogithms
Though there are many graph algorithms exists but in spark (graphframe library) there only a few notable implementations.
1.2.1 Breadth-first search (BFS)
Breadth-first-search/Traversal is a graph traversal algorithm that starts traversing the graph from the root node and explores all the neighboring nodes(Vertex). Then, it selects the nearest node and explores all the unexplored nodes. The algorithm follows the same process for each of the nearest node until it finds the goal.
Real world use case, BFS runs on the map above and determines what the shortest routes between the cities are and produces the map below, which shows the best paths from city to city.
1.2.2 Connected components
A connected component of a graph is a subgraph in which any two vertices are connected to each other by one or more edges, and which is connected to no additional vertices in the supergraph. In the (undirected) example below there are two connected components. Connected components detection can be interesting for clustering, but also to make your computations more efficient
Use case
As you can see below the graph is a comic book network,on which we built a graph which shows that all Marvel characters are connected/strongly-connected in the network. On the contrary, DC characters have also not been involved with any of Marvel characters.
The graph below represents the comic book graph
fig: Showing connected two components in a given comic book network
1.2.3 Label propagation
The Label Propagation algorithm (LPA) is a fast algorithm for finding communities in a graph. It detects these communities using network structure alone as its guide and doesn’t require a pre-defined objective function or prior information about the communities.
Use case
Label propagation has been used to estimate potentially dangerous combinations of drugs to co-prescribe to a patient, based on the chemical similarity and side effect profiles.
you can find more about here Label propagation
1.2.4 PageRank
PageRank is an algorithm that measures the connectivity of nodes.
It can be computed by either iteratively distributing one node’s rank (originally based on degree) over its neighbors or by randomly traversing the graph and counting the frequency of hitting each node during these walks.
Use case
Personalized PageRank is used by Twitter to present users with recommendations of other accounts that they may wish to follow. The algorithm is run over a graph which contains shared interests and common connections.
1.2.5 Shortest paths
The Shortest Path algorithm calculates the shortest (weighted) path between a pair of nodes. In this category, Dijkstra’s algorithm is the most well known. It is a real-time graph algorithm and can be used as part of the normal user flow in a web or mobile application. The shortest path employs BFS to find single-source shortest paths.
Use case
Social networks can use the algorithm to find the degrees of separation between people. For example, when you view someone’s profile on LinkedIn, it will indicate how many people separate you in the connections graph, as well as listing your mutual connections.
1.2.6 Triangle counting
Triangle counting is a community detection graph algorithm that is used to determine the number of triangles passing through each node in the graph. A triangle is a set of three nodes, where each node has a relationship to all other nodes.
Use case
Triangle count and clustering coefficient have been shown to be useful as features for classifying a given website as spam, or non-spam.
2. DataBricks
A DataBricks notebook is a web-based interface to a document that contains runnable code, visualizations, and narrative text. Notebooks are one interface for interacting with Databricks. It is similar to jupyter, zeppelin notebooks. It supports R, Python, Scala
languages.
Why I choose Databricks, while Jupyter and zeeplin are available, because you can get free 6GB ram instance in a community edition and saves you from local installations and configuration. Just plug and play for this tutorial purpose.
2.1 Creating an account
fig: showing DataBricks trail and community editions
Head to Community edition and create an account you can also try out a free trial version for 14 days. Once you login you will be landed to the home page
fig: Home page of Databricks community edition
2.2 Spinning up a new cluster
On the left side panel click Cluster
icon which launches cluster configuration page.Create Cluster
button will launch a cluster for you.
just name your cluster and leave the rest as it is.
Fig: Cluster page in data bricks
2.3 Creating a new notebook
On the left side panel click
Work space
icon -> users
-> <your username>
-> right click -> create
-> notebook
Fig: creating a notebook page in Databricks
Check the notebook
You can enter text in the editable area of the cell[each box referred to as cell]. Just for sake of testing whether our notebook connected to the cluster or not, type sc
which should return a sparkContex
object as below
2.4 Uploading a file to cloud
There are many options for the file upload, which are typical file upload, S3, DBFS. We can upload local files by clicking browse
option.
Download sample csv here
Fig: File uploader page in Databricks notebook
please take a note of that File uploaded path
2.5 Loading a csv file
The code below will read a CSV file form the provided path which we got earlier.
val EmployeeFile = spark.read.format("csv").option("header","true").load("/FileStore/tables/emp.csv");
2.6 Exploring Spark-UI
As we have the DataFrame created with name EmployeeFile
, we can run some spark transformation and actions on it to learn about how to inspect job, stages, tasks in spark-ui.
import org.apache.spark.sql._
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
EmployeeFile.groupBy("mid").agg(count("mid")).show
Fig: performing some groupBy and aggregations
open View
(highlighted in red color) in a new window, then you will be redirected to Spark-UI
page.Which is a very important component of spark because you can visualize your cluster and jobs, tasks and log files all at one place. The Spark-UI gives you a big picture of the background flow of computation.
Fig: Showing different components of Spark-UI
Explore more about Spark-UI
here
2.7 Display Html in notebook
One great thing about the notebooks is that you don't have to develop other separate web application and connect your spark application to it via an API call to display results. You can compute the result in spark and display the results in an HTML.
create a color
variable which holds the value
val color = "red"
color
variable will be used in html and can be rendered dynamically. In order to use vaiables inside displayHTML
use this syntax ${Var_name}
displayHTML(s"""
<svg width="100" height="100">
<circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" stroke="green" stroke-width="4" fill=${color} />
Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.
</svg>
<h1>heading</h1>
""")
You can find this notebook published at this link
Curriculum
Proof of Work Done
https://github.com/yashwanth2804/Spark-IMDB-Graph/tree/master/DATABRICKS/SAMPLE
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