Natural Language Processing (NLP) / Spark and Sparklyr

You down with NLP? (yeah you know me)

Richard Vlasimsky with IMIDEX will demonstrate some basic natural language processing concepts and techniques in R using data from the Open Lyrics database on Github.

Spark and sparklyr

Sean Lopp from Rstudio will go through how to get started with Spark and sparklyr. We'll also discuss what Spark is and where its used, and demo examples of data wrangling, machine learning, and spark streaming.