Apache SPARK Day @ IDUG Australia (Sept 13, 2016)

IBM is offering a free proof of technology for clients and practitioners on Apache Spark, at the 2016 IDUG Tech Conference in Australia. 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.

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:

• 8:30am - 9:00am Registration, Welcome, Socialize

• 9:00am - 10:00am Kick-off, Apache Spark Overview

• 10:00am - 11:00am Lab 1, Hello Spark - Hands on Exercise

• 11:00am - 12:00pm Apache Spark SQL Overview

• 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch

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

• 2:00pm - 3:00pm Overview of Data Science & Machine Learning with Apache Spark

• 3:00pm - 4:00pm Lab 3, Machine Learning with Spark - Hands on Exercises

• 4:00pm - 4:30pm Wrap Up - Feedback from Attendees

More details about IDUG Australia 2016 and registration is available at: http://www.idug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=1051