- Go to the UCI Machine Learning Repository and download the http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/00359/NewsAggregatorDataset.zip file.
- Start a new project in IntelliJ or in an IDE of your choice. Make sure that the necessary JAR files are included.
- Set up the package location where the program will reside:
package spark.ml.cookbook.chapter4
- Import the necessary packages for the Spark session to gain access to the cluster and log4j.Logger to reduce the amount of output produced by Spark:
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSessionimport org.apache.log4j.{ Level, Logger}
- Set the output level to ERROR to reduce Spark's logging output:
Logger.getLogger("org").setLevel(Level.ERROR)Logger.getLogger("akka" ...