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Jupyter Cookbook
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Jupyter Cookbook

by Toomey, Nikhil Borkar, Nikhil Akki, Juan Tomás Oliva Ramos
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
238 pages
7h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing the Spark engine

Generally, installing Spark involves two steps:

  • Installing Spark (for your environment)
  • Connecting Spark to your environment (whether standalone or clustered)

The Spark installations are environment specific. I've included the steps to install Spark (in connection with Jupyter) for a Windows environment here. There are different instructions for other environments.

Similarly, Spark relies on a base language to work from. This can be Scala or Python. We automatically have Python as part of the Jupyter installations, so we will rely on Python as the basis. In other words, we will code a Python Notebook, where Python statements invoke Spark libraries to perform different steps.

Steps for installing:

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ISBN: 9781788839440Supplemental Content