Building A Linear Regression with PySpark and MLlib

Apache Spark has become one of the most commonly used and supported open-source tools for machine learning and data science. In this post, I'll help you get started using Apache Spark's spark.ml Our data is from the Kaggle competition: Housing Values in Suburbs of Boston. AGE -- proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940. BLACK -- 1000(Bk -- 0.63)² where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town. This is the target variable.