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

By : Frank Kane
Book Image

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

By: Frank Kane

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
7
Where to Go From Here? – Learning More About Spark and Data Science

Chapter 7. Where to Go From Here? – Learning More About Spark and Data Science

If you made it this far, congratulations! Thanks for sticking through this whole book with me. If you feel like it was a useful experience and you've learned a few things, please write a review on this book. That will help me improve the book in future editions. Let me know what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, and it will help other prospective students understand if they should give this course a try. I'd really appreciate your feedback.

So where do you go from here? What's next? Well, there's obviously a lot more to learn. We've covered a lot of the basics of Spark, but of course there is more to the field of data science and big data as a whole. If you want more information on this topic, Packt offer an extensive collection of Spark books and courses. There are also some other books that I can recommend about Spark. I don't make any money from these, so don't worry, I'm not trying to sell you anything...