(1) The document describes building an email classifier using Spark MLlib. It loads spam and ham email datasets, trains a logistic regression model on tokenized and hashed features, and evaluates the model on test data.
(2) It then shows how to implement the same workflow as a machine learning pipeline in Spark, including tokenization, feature extraction, model training, validation, and hyperparameter tuning via cross-validation.
(3) The pipeline achieves 99.77% accuracy on test data, outperforming the standalone model implementation from the first part. This demonstrates the benefits of ML pipelines for simplifying, standardizing, and automating machine learning workflows.
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