Summary
IBM is offering a free proof of technology for clients and practitioners on Apache Spark. This is a full day of education on Spark with hands on exercises instructed in person by Spark experts. The event will provide a detailed overview of Apache Spark. The hands on labs will be done in Jupyter notebooks on publicly available datasets. Participants will use IBM’s fully managed Cloud platform available for free for educational purposes.
Title:
"Hands on Introduction to Apache Spark for Data Engineers, Data Scientist and Developers"
Who should go:
"Anyone interested in learning more about Apache Spark."
Prerequisite:
"A working knowledge of Coding (Preferred Python and/or Scala), understand distributed computing, Spark and SQL."
What to expect:
"Expect to spend a full day of lecture and hands on exercises attacking real-world data challenges using Apache Spark. In 8 hours you will learn the basic essentials of Apache Spark and why it's important to your organization. This workshop will focus on data wrangling and machine learning."
