Spark Hands On 1-Day Workshop for Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Developers

IBM is offering a free hands-on workshop 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.

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.

What to Bring:
Attendees should bring their own laptop, as we will be leveraging a cloud platform for all exercises.