Introduction to Apache Spark 2.0

A Primer on Spark 2.0 Fundamentals and Architecture I’m proud to post that my O’Reilly video series Introduction to Apache Spark 2.0: A Primer on Spark 2.0 Fundamentals and Architecture is now available on O’Reilly Safari (Start your ten-day free trial) or you can purchase the video series directly. This video series highlights what’s new in Apache 2.0 and reviews its core concepts. The course starts with a high-level overview of Spark’s components and then dives into Spark 2.0’s three main themes: simplicity, speed, and intelligence. The simplicity section describes how Spark 2.0 unifies the Spark APIs and Spark session,…

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Data Exploration with Databricks

Today, it was also featured on InsideBigData: Data Exploration with Databricks.  Awesome!   This Data Exploration on Databricks jump start video will show you how go from data source to visualization in a few easy steps. Specifically, we will take semi-structured logs, easily extract and transform them, analyze and visualize the data using Spark SQL, so we can quickly understand our data. For more information and to check out other Spark notebooks, check out Selected Notebooks > Databricks Jump Start.  

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