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Practical Big Data Analytics
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Practical Big Data Analytics

by Nataraj Dasgupta
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
412 pages
9h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Spark exercise - hands-on with Spark (Databricks)

This notebook is based on tutorials conducted by Databricks (https://databricks.com/). The tutorial will be conducted using the Databricks' Community Edition of Spark, available to sign up to at https://databricks.com/try-databricks. Databricks is a leading provider of the commercial and enterprise supported version of Spark.

In this tutorial, we will introduce a few basic commands used in Spark. Users are encouraged to try out more extensive Spark tutorials and notebooks that are available on the web for more detailed examples.

Documentation for Spark's Python API can be found at https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/pyspark.html#pyspark.sql.

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