What is pageRank in graphX

Question

Hi,

I am new in spark. Can somebody tell me what is pageRank? And how it is work?

Thank You

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

The PageRank algorithm outputs a probability distribution used to represent the likelihood that a person randomly clicking on links will arrive at any particular page. PageRank can be calculated for collections of documents of any size. It is assumed in several research papers that the distribution is evenly divided among all documents in the collection at the beginning of the computational process.