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Use Spark to recommend mitigation for car rental company with ibm-watson-machine-learning
This notebook contains steps and code to create a predictive model, and deploy it on WML. This notebook introduces commands for pipeline creation, model training, model persistance to Watson Machine Learning repository, model deployment, and scoring.
Some familiarity with Python is helpful. This notebook uses Python 3.9 and Apache® Spark 3.0.
You will use car_rental_training dataset.
Learning goals
The learning goals of this notebook are:
Load a CSV file into an Apache® Spark DataFrame.
Explore data.
Prepare data for training and evaluation.
Create an Apache® Spark machine learning pipeline.
Train and evaluate a model.
Persist a pipeline and model in Watson Machine Learning repository.
Deploy a model for online scoring using Wastson Machine Learning API.
Score sample scoring data using the Watson Machine Learning API.
Contents
This notebook contains the following parts:
Note: This notebook works correctly with kernel Python 3.9 with Spark 3.0
, please do not change kernel.
Connection to WML
Authenticate the Watson Machine Learning service on IBM Cloud Pack for Data. You need to provide platform url
, your username
and api_key
.
Alternatively you can use username
and password
to authenticate WML services.
Install and import the ibm-watson-machine-learning
package
Note: ibm-watson-machine-learning
documentation can be found here.
Working with spaces
First of all, you need to create a space that will be used for your work. If you do not have space already created, you can use {PLATFORM_URL}/ml-runtime/spaces?context=icp4data
to create one.
Click New Deployment Space
Create an empty space
Go to space
Settings
tabCopy
space_id
and paste it below
Tip: You can also use SDK to prepare the space for your work. More information can be found here.
Action: Assign space ID below
You can use list
method to print all existing spaces.
To be able to interact with all resources available in Watson Machine Learning, you need to set space which you will be using.
Note: Please restart the kernel (Kernel -> Restart)
Test Spark
In this section you will load the data as an Apache Spark DataFrame and perform a basic exploration.
Read data into Spark DataFrame from DB2 database and show sample record.
Load data
Explore data
As you can see, the data contains eleven fields. Action
field is the one you would like to predict using feedback data in Customer_Service
field.
As you can see, the data set contains 486 records.
3. Create an Apache Spark machine learning model
In this section you will learn how to:
In this section you will create an Apache Spark machine learning pipeline and then train the model.
In the following step, use the StringIndexer transformer to convert all the string fields to numeric ones.
In this section you will learn how to store your pipeline and model in Watson Machine Learning repository by using python client libraries.
Note: Apache® Spark 3.0 is required.
Get saved model metadata from Watson Machine Learning.
Model Id can be used to retrive latest model version from Watson Machine Learning instance.
Below you can see stored model details.
You can use following command to create online deployment in cloud.
If you want to clean up all created assets:
experiments
trainings
pipelines
model definitions
models
functions
deployments
please follow up this sample notebook.
You successfully completed this notebook! You learned how to use Apache Spark machine learning as well as Watson Machine Learning for model creation and deployment.
Check out our Online Documentation for more samples, tutorials, documentation, how-tos, and blog posts.
Authors
Amadeusz Masny, Python Software Developer in Watson Machine Learning at IBM
Copyright © 2020-2025 IBM. This notebook and its source code are released under the terms of the MIT License.