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spark-crowd 
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Learning from crowdsourced Big Data

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Learning from crowdsourced data imposes new challenges 
in the area of machine learning. This package, `spark-crowd`, helps practitioners
when dealing with this kind of data at scale, using Apache Spark. 


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The main features of `spark-crowd` are the following:

* It implements well-known methods for learning from crowdsourced labeled data. 
* It is suitable for working with both large and small datasets. 
* It uses Apache Spark, which allows the code to run in different environments, from a computer to a multi-node cluster.
* It is suitable both for research and production environments. 
* It provides an easy to use API, allowing the practitioner to start using the library in minutes. 
* It is licensed under the `MIT license <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT/>`_.

See the :ref:`quickstart` to get started using `spark-crowd`












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.. * :ref:`modindex`
.. * :ref:`search`