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

Code sample - count the words in a book

In order to make this more interesting and real, I'm going to actually use the text of a real book. It's one that I wrote, so I have the rights to include it here:

Go to the download package for this book at this point, and download both the book.txt file, which contains the text of the entire book, and the word-count.py script. Place them in your SparkCourse directory:

Double-click on the word-count.py script and we'll take a look at it:

This is very simple stuff, but the key point to note here is that ...