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

IBM is offering a free hands-on lab 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 course will provide a detail overview of Apache Spark with real world hands on examples of data wrangling and machine learning. The exercises will be done in Jupyter notebooks with publicly available datasets. Participants will use IBM’s fully managed free Cloud platform available for educational purposes.

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Who should attend:
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:

8:30am Breakfast, Registration, Socialize

9:00am Kickoff, Apache Spark Overview

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

11:00 am Apache Spark SQL Overview

12:00 pm Lunch

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

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

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

4:00 pm Wrap up – Feedback from attendee

Reminder: Please register HERE (http://bit.ly/2gG9il3) to confirm your seat.