April 2018
Beginner
238 pages
7h 13m
English
Generally, installing Spark involves two steps:
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: