Apache Spark - Starting your Big Data journey

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About this Meetup Event:

Spark, a fast general-purpose cluster computing framework, has set the Big Data world on fire. It has become the most active open-source big data project. This is an introductory talk for those who want to get into Big Data and learn about Spark, but don't know where to start.

Talk Title: Starting Your Big Data Journey with Spark

Join us for a talk on Big Data and Apache Spark by Glassbeam's Principal Architect, Mohammed Guller (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammedguller). Mohammad will start with a discussion of Big Data and the challenges associated with it as well the benefits that it provides. Next, Mohammed will discuss some of the important technologies created in the last few years to handle Big Data. Then he will dive into Spark, covering the following topics

• Intro to Spark and its role in the Big Data ecosystem.

• Why Spark is hot

• Why people are replacing Hadoop MapReduce with Spark

• What kind of applications really benefit from Spark.

• Overview of Spark's high-level architecture

• Overview of key libraries that come prepackaged with Spark. These libraries simplify a variety of analytical tasks, including interactive analytics, stream data processing, graph analytics, and machine learning.

Speaker: Mohammed Guller (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammedguller), Principal Architect at Glassbeam, Author of "Big Data Analytics with Spark (http://www.apress.com/9781484209653)."

Mohammed Guller leads the development of advanced and predictive analytics products. He is also the author of the recently published book, "Big Data Analytics with Spark (http://www.apress.com/9781484209653)." He is passionate about building new products, Big Data analytics, and machine learning and is frequently invited to speak at Big Data–related conferences.

Mohammed has a master’s of business administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s of computer applications from RCC, Gujarat University, India. For more about Mohammad, visit his profile on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammedguller).

Agenda:

6:30 pm Food/Drink/Networking
7:00 pm Welcome
7:15 pm "Starting Your Big Data Journey with Spark" by Mohammed Guller (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammedguller)

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