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Fast Data Processing with Spark 2

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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785889271

Length 274 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Scala

Tools

Apache Spark

Concepts

Data Processing

Authors (2):

Krishna Sankar

Karau

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Fast Data Processing with Spark 2 Third Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Installing Spark and Setting Up Your Cluster FREE CHAPTER

2. Using the Spark Shell

3. Building and Running a Spark Application

4. Creating a SparkSession Object

5. Loading and Saving Data in Spark

6. Manipulating Your RDD

7. Spark 2.0 Concepts

8. Spark SQL

9. Foundations of Datasets/DataFrames – The Proverbial Workhorse for DataScientists

10. Spark with Big Data

11. Machine Learning with Spark ML Pipelines

12. GraphX

References

The references are listed here:

http://archive09.linux.com/feature/151340
http://spark-project.org/docs/latest/spark-standalone.html
http://bickson.blogspot.com/2012/10/deploying-graphlabsparkmesos-cluster-on.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-spark/
http://mesos.apache.org/
http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/4926593393724923
http://spark-project.org/docs/latest/ec2-scripts.html
http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/cluster-overview.html
https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~matei/papers/2012/nsdi_spark.pdf
http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41378.html
http://aws.amazon.com/articles/4926593393724923
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/DeveloperGuide/emr-cli-install.html

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Authors (2)

Krishna Sankar

Krishna Sankar

Krishna Sankar is an AI data scientist with Volvo Cars focusing on autonomous vehicles. Previously, he was the chief data scientist at blackarrow, where he was focusing on optimizing user experience via inference, intelligence, and interfaces. He was the director of a data science/bioinformatics startup and also worked as a distinguished engineer at Cisco. He has been speaking at various conferences as well as guest lecturing at the Naval Postgraduate School. His other passion is Lego Robotics. You'll find him at the St.Louis FLL World Competition as the robot design judge.

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Karau

Karau

Holden Karau is a software development engineer and is active in the open source. She has worked on a variety of search, classification, and distributed systems problems at IBM, Alpine, Databricks, Google, Foursquare, and Amazon. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a bachelor's of mathematics degree in computer science. Other than software, she enjoys playing with fire and hula hoops, and welding.

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