Spark 2.0 (pySpark) made easy - Hands on Code

Hello again!

We are announcing the next meetup on Wed, April 19th.

This time we are going to be diving into Spark 2.0, especifically:

1. Loading data from Azure Storage and Azure Data Lake Store, what's best.
2. Dataframes Functions vs Spark SQL
3. Data formats: CSV vs PARQUET vs JSON vs ORC
4. Persistance of Hive Tables using Azure SQL as the metastore
5. Example of an ETL process with a public dataset

You can bring your own laptop and use your Azure account to follow the example and get the most of it.

See you there!