Frank Kane's hands-on Spark training course, based on his bestselling
Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python video, now available in a
book. Understand and analyze large data sets using Spark on a single
system or on a cluster.
Key Features
- Understand how Spark can be distributed across computing clusters
- Develop and run Spark jobs efficiently using Python
- A hands-on tutorial by Frank Kane with over 15 real-world examples
teaching you Big Data processing with Spark
Book Description
Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python is your
companion to learning Apache Spark in a hands-on manner. Frank will
start you off by teaching you how to set up Spark on a single system or
on a cluster, and you'll soon move on to analyzing large data sets using
Spark RDD, and developing and running effective Spark jobs quickly using
Python.
Apache Spark has emerged as the next big thing in the Big Data domain -
quickly rising from an ascending technology to an established superstar
in just a matter of years. Spark allows you to quickly extract
actionable insights from large amounts of data, on a real-time basis,
making it an essential tool in many modern businesses.
Frank has packed this book with over 15 interactive, fun-filled examples
relevant to the real world, and he will empower you to understand the
Spark ecosystem and implement production-grade real-time Spark projects
with ease.
What you will learn
- Find out how you can identify Big Data problems as Spark problems
- Install and run Apache Spark on your computer or on a cluster
- Analyze large data sets across many CPUs using Spark's Resilient
Distributed Datasets
- Implement machine learning on Spark using the MLlib library
- Process continuous streams of data in real time using the Spark
streaming module
- Perform complex network analysis using Spark's GraphX library
- Use Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service to run your Spark jobs on a
cluster
Who this book is for:
If you are a data scientist or data analyst who wants to learn Big Data
processing using Apache Spark and Python, this book is for you. If you
have some programming experience in Python, and want to learn how to
process large amounts of data using Apache Spark, Frank Kane's Taming
Big Data with Apache Spark and Python will also help you.
