Apache Spark Snippet - Counts# This is the first in a series of snippets on Apache Spark programs. In a previous post I ran a machine learning algorithm through Spark and will be following a similar setup using the Hortonworks Sandbox. In the future I'll do some snippets on AWS'

Today's goal is to make a prediction on a movie's rating based on its synopsis using machine learning in an environment that could scale out to hundreds or even thousands of nodes. As the title suggests, I'll be doing it on Apache Spark using MLlib written in Scala. I wanted