Big Data for Data Scientists: Apache Spark Hands-on Workshop

As the major banks in Canada have built their own data science teams and started to carry out proof-of-concept projects, data scientists who are able to use big data tools, like Hadoop, Hive, Scala, and Spark have become one of the most in-demand and highest-paying jobs in Canada.

On Saturday, Shaohua Zhang, co-founder and chief instructor of WeCloudData, who's also a data scientist at Kik, will share his experience on how he employed big data technology to build up customer taste graph from end to end.

In this introductory workshop, we will help you get started with Big Data Technologies.

Topics covered:

• Introduction to Big Data
• Big data use case sharing

Prerequisite:

• Basic Python knowledge

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