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Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python
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Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

by Frank Kane
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
296 pages
7h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

Ratings histogram walk-through

Remember the RatingsHistogram code that we ran for your first Spark program? Well, let's take a closer look at that and figure out what's actually going on under the hood with it. Understanding concepts is all well and good, but nothing beats looking at some real examples. Let's go back to the RatingsHistogram example that we started off with in this book. We'll break it down and understand exactly what it's doing under the hood and how it's using our RDDs to actually get the results for the RatingsHistogram data.

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