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Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

Real-world examples to help you analyze large datasets with Apache Spark

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jan 2025
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Description

Frank Kane's hands-on Spark training course, based on his bestselling Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python video, now available in a book. Understand and analyze large data sets using Spark on a single system or on a cluster.

Key Features

  • Understand how Spark can be distributed across computing clusters
  • Develop and run Spark jobs efficiently using Python
  • A hands-on tutorial by Frank Kane with over 15 real-world examples teaching you Big Data processing with Spark

Book Description

Frank Kane’s Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python is your companion to learning Apache Spark in a hands-on manner. Frank will start you off by teaching you how to set up Spark on a single system or on a cluster, and you’ll soon move on to analyzing large data sets using Spark RDD, and developing and running effective Spark jobs quickly using Python.

Apache Spark has emerged as the next big thing in the Big Data domain – quickly rising from an ascending technology to an established superstar in just a matter of years. Spark allows you to quickly extract actionable insights from large amounts of data, on a real-time basis, making it an essential tool in many modern businesses.

Frank has packed this book with over 15 interactive, fun-filled examples relevant to the real world, and he will empower you to understand the Spark ecosystem and implement production-grade real-time Spark projects with ease.

What you will learn

  • Find out how you can identify Big Data problems as Spark problems
  • Install and run Apache Spark on your computer or on a cluster
  • Analyze large data sets across many CPUs using Spark's Resilient Distributed Datasets
  • Implement machine learning on Spark using the MLlib library
  • Process continuous streams of data in real time using the Spark streaming module
  • Perform complex network analysis using Spark's GraphX library
  • Use Amazon s Elastic MapReduce service to run your Spark jobs on a cluster

Who this book is for

If you are a data scientist or data analyst who wants to learn Big Data processing using Apache Spark and Python, this book is for you. If you have some programming experience in Python, and want to learn how to process large amounts of data using Apache Spark, Frank Kane’s Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python will also help you.

Table of Contents

  1. Getting Started with Spark
  2. Spark Basics and Simple Examples
  3. Advanced Examples of Spark Programs
  4. Running Spark on a Cluster
  5. SparkSQL, Dataframes and Datasets
  6. Other Spark Technologies and Libraries
  7. Where to Go From Here? - Learning More About Spark and Data Science
https://github.com/packtpublishing/frank-kanes-taming-big-data-with-apache-spark-and-python
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78728-830-0
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 296
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Databases and data mining
BISAC subjects:
COM018000,
COM062000,
COM021030
Thema subjects:
UNC,
GPH,
UNA,
UYZM

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