An Intro and Overview of Spark 2.x


Details
We are pleased to have John O'Dwyer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnodwyer/), Solutions Architect at Databricks, joining us for our November Meetup.
John's presentation will focus on Spark, today's de-facto unified engine for big data processing.
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The agenda for the evening will be as follows:
• Overview of Spark: Fundamentals, Architecture and Unified APIs
• Introduction to DataFrames, Datasets and SparkSQL
• Spark Demo
Note: to follow along with the demo, you will need a laptop with Chrome or Firefox browser installed with at least 8 GB of RAM
Important Links:
https://databricks.com/try-databricks
https://tinyurl.com/1-python-hello-world
https://tinyurl.com/2-python-dataframes
https://tinyurl.com/3-python-data-science
Note! Please also RSVP on Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pydata-presents-an-intro-and-overview-of-spark-2x-tickets-32235040875) to expedite your check-in upon arrival at Galvanize. Thanks!
We hope that you will be able to join us!


An Intro and Overview of Spark 2.x