contents

 

foreword

preface

acknowledgments

about this book 

about the author 

about the cover illustration

Part 1. The theory crippled by awesome examples

1. So, what is Spark, anyway?

1.1 The big picture: What Spark is and what it does

What is Spark?

The four pillars of mana

1.2 How can you use Spark?

Spark in a data processing/engineering scenario

Spark in a data science scenario

1.3 What can you do with Spark?

Spark predicts restaurant quality at NC eateries

Spark allows fast data transfer for Lumeris

Spark analyzes equipment logs for CERN

Other use cases

1.4 Why you will love the dataframe

The dataframe from a Java perspective

The dataframe from an RDBMS perspective

A graphical representation of the dataframe

1.5 Your first example

Recommended software

Downloading the code Running your first application

Your first code