Announcing Apache Spark Essentials for the Public Sector workshop

We are proud to announce Apache Spark Essentials - the first in a series of free technical workshops tailored for the public sector.  Data scientists, engineers, and analysts who attend Session 1: Spark Essentials, will be introduced to the Spark platform and ecosystem. It provides a hands-on introduction of how to effectively use Spark’s various processing engines and higher-level libraries to tackle a unified use case.

Sign up today at Apache Spark for Public Sector workshop as space is limited:

• Date: Friday, January 29th
• Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Location: CACI Inc, 14360 Newbrook Dr, Chantilly, VA

Subsequent sessions will follow, covering in-depth exercises on machine learning, real-time stream analysis, and graph processing.

Agenda

• Learn how to mix usage of different Spark engines for sophisticated analysis:
  • DataFrames + Spark SQL
  • RDDs
  • Spark Streaming
  • MLlib (Machine Learning)
  • GraphX
• ETL to/from various data sources: S3, HDFS, Parquet, Hive, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB, neo4j, etc.
• Launch and monitor Spark clusters in the Amazon Cloud
• Understand Spark Architecture fundamentals
• Use the Spark UI to analyze the performance of a job
• Use various visualization tools (Databricks native, matplotlib, Google Charts, D3.js, etc) to surface insights

For more information, check out Spark for the Public Sector: A Workshop Series from Databricks.