In this tutorial developers will learn the core Spark APIs. It will feature hands-on technical exercises to get up to speed using Spark for data exploration, analysis, and building Big Data applications. Main topics covered:

• Overview of Big Data and Spark
• Using Spark core APIs in Scala, Java, Python
• Building Spark Applications
• How to run Spark apps in cloud-based notebooks
• Combining SQL, Machine Learning, Streaming, Graph for Unified Pipelines
• Case studies of production use cases

We will provide USBs for installation on laptops, and provide free trial accounts on Databricks Cloud to run notebooks.

Requirements:

• Some background coding in Python or Scala
• Bring a laptop with wifi + browser
• Please, no Homebrew or Cygwin install/usage of Spark
• Have JDK 6/7/8 and Python 2.7 installed