Ankara Spark day

Register at :

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ankara-spark-day-registration-25586054578

Ankara Big Data Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/ankara-big-data-meetup/) and Istanbul Spark Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Istanbul-Spark-Meetup/) are co-organizing a whole day Spark event in Ankara sponsored by Udemy.

There will be 4 talks in the event and they will be presented in the morning and afternoon sessions. The details of the talks and the speakers are given below:

1. Introduction to Spark

What’s Spark?

Spark Programming Model

Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs)

Creating an RDD

Spark Transformations and Actions

pySpark Examples

Speaker Bio
Abdullah Cetin CAVDAR is a senior software engineer at Udemy. He works for recommendation and data teams.
Linkedin (https://linkedin.com/in/accavdar)

2. Introduction to DataFrame and SparkSQL

Power of Dataframes

Querying data with SQL

Visualisation with Zeppelin Notebook

Speaker Bio
Şafak Kapçı is a big data analyst at morhipo.com.
Linkedin (https://tr.linkedin.com/in/sskapci)

3. Introduction to SparkR

Installation and Creating a SparkContext

Getting DataSQL queries in SparkR

DataFramesApplication Examples (Correlation and Time Series Analysis, Random Trees, K-Means)

Speaker Bio
Olgun Aydın is a Senior Data Analyst at Zingat, he is also PhD Candidate at Mimar Sinan University Department of Statistics. He has been studying on so many different areas like Biometry, Finance, Social Science. He has so many academic papers, proceedings about applications of these areas. Olgun enjoys to play with data on Big Data platform. He is familiar with reporting tools, big data query languages.
Linkedin (https://tr.linkedin.com/in/olgun-ayd%C4%B1n-46250960)

4. Stream Processing With Apache Kafka and Spark Streaming

What is Stream Processing

Hands on Apache Kafka

Internals Of Apache Spark Streaming

Hands on Apache Spark Streaming

Speaker Bio
Kurtuluş Yılmaz is Software Engineer at Ebay Turkey. He has 6 years experience as a Software Engineer. He has experience at Fraud Prevention and Business Process Management domains. He is working on Big Data Projects at Ebay Turkey nowadays.
Linkedin (https://tr.linkedin.com/in/kurtulusyilmaz)

The Schedule

09:30 - Coffee and Networking
10:00 - Introduction to Spark
10:50 - Coffee Break
11:00 - Introduction to DataFrame and SparkSQL
11:50 - Lunch Break
12:00 - Lunch (Pizza)
13:00 - Coffee and Networking
13:30 - Introduction to SparkR
14:20 - Coffee Break
14:30 - Stream Processing With Apache Kafka and Spark Streaming
15:20 - Coffee Break

Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/) is our main event sponsor. Thanks a lot for their support.

The talks will be in Turkish.