Hands-on Intro to Apache Spark for Data Engineers, Data Scientist and Developers

Join us for a full day of education on Apache Spark with hands on exercises instructed in person by Spark experts. The day will provide a detail overview of Apache Spark. The labs will be done in Jupyter notebooks on publicly available datasets. Participants will use IBM’s fully managed Cloud platform available for free for educational purposes.

Please register here to confirm your seat: Dallas - Apache Spark (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/apache-spark-hands-on-introduction-bring-your-own-laptop-tickets-28791043787)

Who should go:
"Anyone interested in learning more about Apache Spark."

Prerequisite:
"A working knowledge of Coding (Preferred Python and/or Scala), would be helpful."

What to expect:
"Expect to spend a full day of lecture and hands on exercises attacking real-world data challenges using Apache Spark. In 8 hours you will learn the basic essentials of Apache Spark and why it's important to your organization. This workshop will focus on data wrangling and machine learning."

Full Day Agenda:

8:30am - 9am Breakfast, Socialize

9:00am – 10:00am Kickoff, Apache Spark Overview

10:00am – 11:00am Lab 1, Hello Spark - Hand on exercise

11:00 am – 12:00pm Apache Spark SQL Overview

12:00 pm – 1pm Lunch

1pm – 2pm Lab 2, Spark SQL - Hands on exercises

2pm – 3pm Overview of Data Science & Machine Learning w/ Apache Spark

3pm – 4pm Lab 3, Machine Learning w/ Spark – Hands on exercises

4pm – 4:30pm Wrap up – Feedback from attendees

To confirm your seat - register here: Dallas - Apache Spark (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/apache-spark-hands-on-introduction-bring-your-own-laptop-tickets-28791043787)