Scala Programming for Big Data Analytics : Get Started With Big Data Analytics Using Apache Spark

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I. ElahiScala Programming for Big Data Analyticshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4810-2_5

5. Data Types

Irfan Elahi¹  

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Notting Hill, VIC, Australia

 

In our daily life, we encounter data of varying nature. For instance, our names consist of letters, our mobile numbers are numbers, and our decisions are usually yes (true) or no (false). To represent these and many other types, every programming language has a type system to support this notion. Using the combination of different types that come with a language’s type system, we can create variables associated with these types to implement tasks of varying nature. Like many other languages, Scala has a strong type system (which in fact is more sophisticated than many others) and ...