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Intro to Apache Spark with 84.51°

Welcome to the Intro to Apache Spark with 84.51° workshop hosted by Northwestern University IT Research Computing Services! In this 3 hour workshop, we'll cover fundamental Spark concepts, basic cloud computing with Azure Databricks, and exercises demonstrating the power of Spark!

Prerequisites: The workshop will assume that you're familiar with basic Python and SQL, as well as developing in a notebook (Jupyter).

Workshop Agenda

• Intro to Spark and the Databricks UI (30 mins)
• 10 min break
• Guided Exercises Part I (25 mins)
• 5 min break
• Guided Exercises Part II (25 mins)
• 10 min break
• Individual Exercises (1 hour)

Resources

• Read about the data we're using for the workshop here!
• Check out our conceptual Spark slides here!