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