Hands-on Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning and Computing with Spark

Hands-on and self-paced workshop on Spark and its applications for distributed query processing, streaming event processing, machine learning and graph processing.

Prerequisites:

• Programming skills in Scala, Python or another functional programming language.

• Your laptop (OS X or Windows). Please download this before coming: http://bit.ly/spark-training-2

• Knowledge of MapReduce or basic machine learning algorithms is desireable but not necessary.

Schedule:

See here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LqaRrE0PWH-49AMYVDnGp-m8NrDsrOxLFqkRCSWc5Z0/edit?usp=sharing).

More details will be coming soon.