Apache Spark Getting Started

Explore the basics of Apache Spark an analytics engine used for big data processing. an open source cluster computing framework built on top of Hadoop. Discover how it allows operations on data with both its own library methods and with SQL while delivering great performance. Learn the characteristics components and functions of Spark Hadoop RDDS the spark session and master and worker notes. Install PySpark. Then initialize a Spark Context and Spark DataFrame from the contents of an RDD and a DataFrame. Configure a DataFrame with a map function. Retrieve and transform data. Finally convert Spark and Pandas DataFrames and vice versa.