The document proposes a distributed approximate spectral clustering (DASC) algorithm to process large datasets in a scalable way. DASC uses locality sensitive hashing to group similar data points and then approximates the kernel matrix on each group to reduce computation. It implements DASC using MapReduce and evaluates it on real and synthetic datasets, showing it can achieve similar clustering accuracy to standard spectral clustering but with an order of magnitude better runtime by distributing the computation across clusters.