How to do it...

  1. Start a new project in IntelliJ or in an IDE of your choice. Make sure that the necessary JAR files are included.
  1. We will use a JSON data file named cars.json, which has been created for this example:
name,cityBears,ChicagoPackers,Green BayLions,DetroitVikings,Minnesota
  1. Set up the package location where the program will reside:
package spark.ml.cookbook.chapter4
  1. Import the necessary packages for the Spark session to get access to the cluster and log4j.Logger to reduce the amount of output produced by Spark:
import org.apache.spark.ml.Pipelineimport org.apache.spark.ml.classification.LogisticRegressionimport org.apache.spark.ml.feature.{HashingTF, Tokenizer}import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSessionimport org.apache.log4j.{Level, ...

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