Introduction to Spark for Data Scientists @ EPCC at Alan Turing Institute London
Date: 31 October - 1 November 2019
Apache Spark is an open-source framework for cluster computing, ideal for large-scale parallel data processing, that is designed for performance and ease-of-use. It is faster and simpler to use than Hadoop MapReduce, providing a rich set of APIs in Python, Java and Scala.
This hands-on course will cover the following topics:
Introduction to Spark
Map, Filter and Reduce
Running on a Spark Cluster
Key-value pairs
Correlations, logistic regression
Decision trees, K-means
Sessions
10:00 - 17:30 (Thu)
10:00 - 15:30 (Fri)
Attendees will be provided with access to EPCC's Tier2 Cirrus system for all practical exercises.
The practicals will be done using Jupyter notebooks so a basic knowledge of Python would be extremely useful.
Registration: Registration has been closed as the course is full with a long waiting list.
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