Apache Zeppelin is an open source software offering a web interface to create notebooks. In a notebook, you can inject some data, execute snippets of code to perform analysis on the data, and then visualize it.
Zeppelin is a collaborative tool; several users can use it simultaneously. You can share notebooks and define the role of each user. You would typically define two different roles:
- The writer, usually a developer, can edit all the paragraphs and create forms.
- The end user does not know much about the technical implementation details. He will just want to change some values in a form and then look at the effect on the results. The results can be a table or a graph, and can be exported to CSV.
Before installing Zeppelin, you need to have Java and Spark installed on your machine.
Follow these steps to install Zeppelin:
- Download the binary from: http://zeppelin.apache.org/download.html.
- Explode the
.tgz
file using your favorite program
That's it. Zeppelin...