spark-knn-recommender

Spark-knn-recommender is a fast, scalable recommendation engine built on top of PySpark, the Python API for Apache Spark. It can be deployed locally or on Amazon EMR.

Requirements

• Python >= 2.7.3
• Spark >= 0.7.0
• Numpy

Installation

First, clone this repo onto your local machine:

$ git clone https://github.com/evancasey/spark-knn-recommender.git

Set your spark cluster configuration in config.py:

# change if you are running on Amazon EMR
CLUSTER_CONFIG = "local"

# fill this in with pySpark path
PYSPARK_HOME = "../spark/pyspark"
SPARKLER_HOME = "../spark/python/sparkler"

In the root directory, run:

$ python setup.py

Using spark-knn-recommender

Run:

$ python train_and_test.py

Running on Amazon EMR

• create an Amazan Web Services Account
• sign up for Elastic MapReduce
• install the Amazon EMR CLI

Run the Spark/Shark bootstrap script:

$ ./elastic-mapreduce --create --alive --name "Spark/Shark Cluster"  --bootstrap-action s3://elasticmapreduce/samples/spark/0.8.1/install-spark-shark.sh --bootstrap-name "Spark/Shark"  --instance-type m1.xlarge --instance-count 3 --jobflow-role spark
Created job flow j-2Y0VECUPLFW94

SSH into the master node of your cluster (replace the job ID below with your job ID):

./elastic-mapreduce -j j-2Y0VECUPLFW94 --ssh

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