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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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Introduction

In this chapter, we cover the methods for accessing big data from Jupyter. Big data is meant to be large data files, often in the many millions of rows. Big data is a topic of discussion in many firms. Most firms have it in one form or another, and they are trying hard to draw some value from all of the data they have stored.

An up-and-coming language for dealing with large datasets is Spark. Spark is an open source toolset specifically made for dealing with large datasets. We can use Spark coding in Jupyter much like the other languages we have seen.

In Chapter 2, Adding an Engine, we dealt with installing Spark for use in Jupyter. For this chapter, we will be using the Python 3 engine for further work. As a reminder, we start ...

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ISBN: 9781788839440Supplemental Content