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Spark for Data Science
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Spark for Data Science

by Bikramaditya Singhal, Srinivas Duvvuri
September 2016
Beginner to intermediate
344 pages
7h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preface

In this smart age, data analytics is the key to sustaining and promoting business growth. Every business is trying to leverage their data as much possible with all sorts of data science tools and techniques to progress along the analytics maturity curve. This sudden rise in data science requirements is the obvious reason for scarcity of data scientists. It is very difficult to meet the market demand with unicorn data scientists who are experts in statistics, machine learning, mathematical modelling as well as programming.

The availability of unicorn data scientists is only going to decrease with the increase in market demand, and it will continue to be so. So, a solution was needed which not only empowers the unicorn data scientists to ...

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ISBN: 9781785885655