Free SPARK training session

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Summary IBM is offering a free proof of technology (POT) for clients and practitioners on Apache Spark. This is a full day of education on Spark with hands on exercises instructed in person by Spark experts. The POT will provide a detail overview of Apache Spark. The exercises will be performed on Jupyter notebooks with publicly available datasets. Participants will use IBM’s fully managed free Cloud platform.

Title: "Hands on Introduction to Apache Spark for Data Engineers, Data Scientist and Developers"

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

Prerequisite : "A working knowledge of Coding (Preferred Python and/or Scala), understand distributed computing, Spark and SQL."

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:

8:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast, Socialize

9:00a m 10:00 am Kickoff, Apache Spark Overview

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

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

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lab 2, Spark SQL - Hands on exercises

2:00 pm 3:00 pm Overview of Data Science & Machine Learning w/ Apache Spark

3:00 pm 4:00 pm Lab 3, Machine Learning w/ Spark – Hands on exercises

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Wrap up – Feedback from attendees

RSVP to this meetup. Space is limited.

Here is the box link for the Student Information.
https://ibm.box.com/v/IntroApacheSparkBluemix