The course will introduce Apache Spark to participants. This is an introductory course and no previous knowledge of Spark is needed. Detailed course outline is listed below.

When: Sat, August 5, 2017, 8 am - 4 pm

Where: Intel, 2200 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054

About the Course:

This course will introduce Apache Spark. The students will learn how to use Spark for data analysis. We will cover the latest Spark version 2.

The course and labs cover:

• Scala Primer (if needed, optional)
• Spark ecosystem
• Installing Spark
• Spark shell for interactive data analysis
• Spark Data models : RDDs / Dataframes / Dataset
• Spark streaming

Labs will cover:

• text data
• clickstream data
• 2016 election contributions
• Spark commit logs
• plus bonus labs for people who get done early

Audience: Developers / Analysts / Architects / Engineers

Format: Full day in-person Saturday workshop + 2-hour on-line review with Q & A

Workshop (in person) : Lectures + hands-on labs. We do a lot of hands-on exercises to reinforce the concepts.

Pre-requisites:

• Developer background
• Familiarity with either Java / Scala / Python language (labs will be in Scala - a quick Scala primer will be taught to bring students up to speed)
• Basic understanding of Linux development environment (command line navigation/ editing files using VI/Emacs/other text editor)

More details and register here.