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Home » Technology » Big Data & Data Science » Introduction to Apache Spark

Course Skill Level:

Foundational to Intermediate

Course Duration:

3 day/s

  • Course Delivery Format:

    Live, instructor-led.

  • Course Category:

    Big Data & Data Science

  • Course Code:

    IAPASPK21M09

Who should attend & recommended skills:

Developers, Data analysts, and business analysts

Who should attend & recommended skills

  • Developers, Data analysts, and business analysts.
  • Even if you haven’t done any Python programming, Python is such an easy language to learn quickly.
  • We will provide Python resources.
  • Jupyter notebooks: Basic (1-2 years’ experience) preferred not requiredA reasonably modern laptop with unrestricted connection to the Internet.
  • Laptops with overly restrictive VPNs or firewalls may not work properly; requiredChrome browser, required.

About this course

We are living in an era of ‘big data’. Being able to analyze and process big data is vital for enterprises. Spark is a popular platform for analyzing big data. This course introduces Apache Spark to students. This class is taught with Python language using Jupyter environment.

Skills acquired & topics covered

  • Spark ecosystem
  • Spark Shell
  • Spark Data structures (RDD / Dataframe / Dataset)
  • Spark SQL
  • Modern data formats and Spark
  • Spark API
  • Spark, Hadoop, and Hive
  • Spark ML overview
  • GraphX
  • Spark Streaming

Course breakdown / modules

  • Big Data , Hadoop, Spark
  • Spark concepts and architecture
  • Spark components overview
  • Labs : Installing and running Spark

  • Spark shell
  • Spark web UIs
  • Analyzing dataset – part 1
  • Labs: Spark shell exploration

  • Partitions
  • Distributed execution
  • Operations : transformations and actions
  • Labs : Unstructured data analytics using RDDs

  • Caching overview
  • Various caching mechanisms available in Spark
  • In memory file systems
  • Caching use cases and best practices
  • Labs: Benchmark of caching performance

  • Dataframes Intro
  • Loading structured data (json, CSV) using Dataframes
  • Using schema
  • Specifying schema for Dataframes
  • Labs : Dataframes, Datasets, Schema

  • Spark SQL concepts and overview
  • Defining tables and importing datasets
  • Querying data using SQL
  • Handling various storage formats : JSON / Parquet / ORC
  • Labs : querying structured data using SQL; evaluating data formats

  • Hadoop Primer : HDFS / YARN
  • Hadoop + Spark architecture
  • Running Spark on Hadoop YARN
  • Processing HDFS files using Spark
  • Spark Hive
  • Spark API loying an Spark application

  • Machine Learning primer
  • Machine Learning in Spark: MLib / ML
  • Spark ML overview (newer Spark2 version)
  • Algorithms overview: Clustering, Classifications, Recommendations
  • Labs: Writing ML applications in Spark

  • GraphX library overview
  • GraphX APIs
  • Create a Graph and navigating it
  • Shortest distance
  • Pregel API
  • Labs: Processing graph data using Spark

  • Streaming concepts
  • Evaluating Streaming platforms
  • Spark streaming library overview
  • Streaming operations
  • Sliding window operations
  • Structured Streaming
  • Continuous streaming
  • Spark Kafka streaming
  • Labs: Writing spark streaming applications

  • These are group workshops
  • Attendees will work on solving real world data analysis problems using Spark

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