Apache Spark 2.0 with Java -Learn Spark from a Big Data Guru (Udemy.com)
Learn analyzing large data sets with Apache Spark by 10+ hands-on examples. Take your big data skills to the next level.
Created by: Tao W.
Last updated September 2018
What you will learn
- An overview of the architecture of Apache Spark.
- Work with Apache Spark's primary abstraction, resilient distributed datasets(RDDs) to process and analyze large data sets.
- Develop Apache Spark 2.0 applications using RDD transformations and actions and Spark SQL.
- Scale up Spark applications on a Hadoop YARN cluster through Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service.
- Analyze structured and semi-structured data using Datasets and DataFrames, and develop a thorough understanding about Spark SQL.
- Share information across different nodes on a Apache Spark cluster by broadcast variables and accumulators.
- Advanced techniques to optimize and tune Apache Spark jobs by partitioning, caching and persisting RDDs.
- Best practices of working with Apache Spark in the field.
How it compares
Against the other 150 rated Udemy courses in Hadoop on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 54% of them
- Reviews3,387#20 of 151 by number of reviews
- Length3.5 hoursshorter than 80% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2018earlier than 80% of them
Course Description
What is this course about:
This course covers all the fundamentals about Apache Spark with Java and teaches you everything you need to know about developing Spark applications with Java. At the end of this course, you will gain in-depth knowledge about Apache Spark and general big data analysis and manipulations skills to help your company to adapt Apache Spark for building big data processing pipeline and data analytics applications.
This course covers 10+ hands-on big data examples. You will learn valuable knowledge about how to frame data analysis problems as Spark problems. Together we will learn examples such as aggregating NASA Apache web logs from different sources; we will explore the price trend by looking at the real estate data in California; we will write Spark applications to find out the median salary of developers in different countries through the Stack Overflow survey data; we will develop a system to analyze how maker spaces are distributed across different regions in the United Kingdom. And much much more.
What will you learn from this lecture:
In particularly, you will learn:
An overview of the architecture of Apache Spark.
Develop Apache Spark 2.0 applications with Java using RDD transformations and actions and Spark SQL.
Work with Apache Spark's primary abstraction, resilient distributed datasets(RDDs) to process and analyze large data sets.
Deep dive into advanced techniques to optimize and tune Apache Spark jobs by partitioning, caching and persisting RDDs.
Scale up Spark applications on a Hadoop YARN cluster through Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service.
Analyze structured and semi-structured data using Datasets and DataFrames, and develop a thorough understanding of Spark SQL.
- Share information across different nodes on an Apache Spark cluster by broadcast variables and accumulators.
Best practices of working with Apache Spark in the field.
- Big data ecosystem overview.
Why shall we learn Apache Spark:
Apache Spark gives us unlimited ability to build cutting-edge applications. It is also one of the most compelling technologies of the last decade in terms of its disruption to the big data world.
Spark provides in-memory cluster computing which greatly boosts the speed of iterative algorithms and interactive data mining tasks.
Apache Spark is the next-generation processing engine for big data.
Tons of companies are adapting Apache Spark to extract meaning from massive data sets, today you have access to that same big data technology right on your desktop.
Apache Spark is becoming a must tool for big data engineers and data scientists.
About the author:
Since 2015, James has been helping his company to adapt Apache Spark for building their big data processing pipeline and data analytics applications.
James' company has gained massive benefits by adapting Apache Spark in production. In this course, he is going to share with you his years of knowledge and best practices of working with Spark in the real field.
Why choosing this course?
This course is very hands-on, James has put lots effort to provide you with not only the theory but also real-life examples of developing Spark applications that you can try out on your own laptop.
James has uploaded all the source code to Github and you will be able to follow along with either Windows, MAC OS or Linux.
In the end of this course, James is confident that you will gain in-depth knowledge about Spark and general big data analysis and data manipulation skills. You'll be able to develop Spark application that analyzes Gigabytes scale of data both on your laptop, and in the cloud using Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service!
30-day Money-back Guarantee!
You will get 30-day money-back guarantee from Udemy for this course.
If not satisfied simply ask for a refund within 30 days. You will get a full refund. No questions whatsoever asked.
Are you ready to take your big data analysis skills and career to the next level, take this course now!
You will go from zero to Spark hero in 4 hours.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
3,387 Reviews
Tao W.
Tao is a passionate software engineer who works in a leading big data analysis company in Silicon Valley.
Previously Tao has worked in big IT companies such as IBM and Cisco.
Tao has a MS degree in Computer Science from University of McGill and many years of experience as a teaching assistant for various computer science classes.
When Tao is not working, Tao enjoys reading and swimming, and he is a passionate photographer.
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Reviews
By NASSIM BOUALI on 12/25/2022
It was an excellent course, stacked with valuable and well explained technical content. Regarding the scope of the course, I would say that covering data streaming concepts and maybe just some of the basics of machine learning with Spark could make it much more complete. Also, as a side note, having a third person speaker could be better for an easy to follow presentation.
By Michael on 6/25/2022
Really good course for a quick intro to Spark. It has definitely sparked my interest - ba-dum kshh - and I will have a deep dive in this fantastic framework. A few things that should be improved - which is why I gave it 3.5 stars: - Updating. I'm sure spark core concepts are still valid, but it's already moved on to version 3.1 and there are probably new goodies to learn about. - Spark Streaming is missing. I think it would be great to have a section about it. - More exercises on the SQL section - Teacher talking to you. This is not a big one, but I prefer a human - even if it's just reading - speaking to me
By Sanjay Verma on 11/14/2020
good for starters like me
By A K on 10/27/2020
Good stuff:
Good course, from an introduction perspective.
Well explained, clear voice
Well worth the deal price of about $10 that I paid for it.
Could have been better:
Would have loved to see content on debugging and monitoring as well.
Content has not been updated since 2018
Content authors no longer seem to be reading or responding to comments/questions
By A K on 9/30/2020
Good stuff: Good course, from an introduction perspective. Well explained, clear voice Well worth the deal price of about $10 that I paid for it. Could have been better: Would have loved to see content on debugging and monitoring as well. Content has not been updated since 2018 Content authors no longer seem to be reading or responding to comments/questions
By Juan A. Fiesco Gtz on 9/22/2020
La traduccin al espaol c.c. no es tan clara, deberan mejorarla, algunos tecnicismos no deberan traducir.
By Suraj Nayak on 9/14/2020
The contents are good for some one who has knowledge and want to refresh skills. The Spark Architecture needed to be explained in detail as how data is sent across. Data locality is important feature and that is missing. I expected to get some details on how we can tune spark applications especially the spark core
By Martynas Narbutas on 8/2/2020
Good course. Some places went not smooth for me, but in general very nice and logical. Appreciated. Thanks!
By Sameer Bakshi on 6/20/2020
Good hands on examples to further gel the learning.
By Dhana Murthy Tanneeru on 6/13/2020
Its ok , Thank you
By Dhaval Bhalala on 6/13/2020
A good starter Course for Apache spark. Short and concise which was what I was looking for to start with.
By Ravi Kumar Singh on 5/27/2020
Nice intro
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Overall Score : 88 / 100







