Spark works best when using the Scala programming language, and this course includes a crash-course in Scala to get you up to speed quickly. For those more familiar with Python however, a Python version of this class is also available: "Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python - Hands On".
Learn and master the art of framing data analysis problems as Spark problems through over 20 hands-on examples, and then scale them up to run on cloud computing services in this course.
Learn the concepts of Spark's Resilient Distributed Datastores
Get a crash course in the Scala programming language
Develop and run Spark jobs quickly using Scala
Translate complex analysis problems into iterative or multi-stage Spark scripts
Scale up to larger data sets using Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service
Understand how Hadoop YARN distributes Spark across computing clusters
Practice using other Spark technologies, like Spark SQL, DataFrames, DataSets, Spark Streaming, and GraphX
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