Web Server Log Analysis with Spark This lab will demonstrate how easy it is to perform web server log analysis with Apache Spark. Server log analysis is an ideal use case for Spark. It’s a very large, common data source and contains a rich set of information. Spark allows you to store your logs in files on disk cheaply, while…
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Building a word count application in Spark
These are my solutions for Apache Spark. Building a word count application in Spark This lab will build on the techniques covered in the Spark tutorial to develop a simple word count application. The volume of unstructured text in existence is growing dramatically, and Spark is an excellent tool for analyzing this type of data. In this lab, we will…
Spark Tutorial: Learning Apache Spark
Spark Tutorial: Learning Apache Spark includes my solution for the EdX course. This tutorial will teach you how to use Apache Spark, a framework for large-scale data processing, within a notebook. Many traditional frameworks were designed to be run on a single computer. However, many datasets today are too large to be stored on a single computer, and even when…
Running Your First Notebook – Apache Spark
This notebook will show you how to install the course libraries, create your first Spark cluster, and test basic notebook functionality. To move through the notebook just run each of the cells. You will not need to solve any problems to complete this lab. You can run a cell by pressing “shift-enter”, which will compute the current cell and advance…