Introduction to Apache Spark

The material here supports the O'Reilly Media video by Paco Nathan: Introduction to Apache Spark

Please see the code examples in the src directory here, which are numbered in the sequence used in the video.

This material assumes that you have downloaded a pre-compiled version of Apache Spark on your laptop from http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html

Outline

• Pre-Flight Check
• Spark Deconstructed: Log Mining Example
• Word Count
• Join
• Coding Exercise
• Pi Approximation
• Spark Streaming example
• Network Word Count in Python
• Network Word Count in Python -- Stateful
• GraphX example
• build/run SimpleApp.java with Maven
• build/run SimpleApp.scala with SBT

Updates

See the bikeshare directory for the Spark 1.3 update, showing DataFrames, MLlib, and GraphX with examples based on Capital Bikeshare data.

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