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In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow
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In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow

by Matthew Topol
June 2022
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
8h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with Apache Arrow

Regardless of whether you are a data scientist/engineer, a machine learning (ML) specialist, or a software engineer trying to build something to perform data analytics, you've probably heard or read about something called Apache Arrow and either looked for more information or wondered what it was. Hopefully, this book can serve as a springboard both in understanding what Apache Arrow is and isn't, and also as a reference book to be continuously utilized in order to supercharge your analytical capabilities.

For now, let's just start off by explaining what Apache Arrow is and what you will use it for. Following that, we will walk through the Arrow specifications, set up a development environment where ...

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