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Pyspark Foundation for Data Engineering | Beginners (Udemy.com)

Data Engineering, PySpark, Coding exercise

Created by: Akash Sunil Pawar

Last updated January 2025

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What you will learn

  • Fundamentals of PySpark
  • Hands on experience in PySpark
  • Understanding of data using PySpark
  • Performing various operations on DataFrame

How it compares

Against the other 150 rated Udemy courses in Hadoop on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 34% of them
  • Reviews73#122 of 151 by number of reviews
  • Length1.2 hoursshorter than 94% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2025more recently than 67% of them

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Course Description

This course will prepare you for a real world Data Engineer role (basics)!

Learn to code PySpark like a real world developer. Here our major focus will be on Practical applications of PySpark and bridge the gap between academic knowledge and practical skill.

In this course we will get to know and apply few of the most essential and basic functions in PySpark, that are used frequently in scripting for any project based on PySpark.


About PySpark:

Learn the latest Big Data Technology - Spark! And learn to use it with one of the most popular programming languages, Python!

One of the most valuable technology skills is the ability to analyze huge data sets, and this course is specifically designed to bring you up to speed on one of the best technologies for this task, Apache Spark! The top technology companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, Amazon, NASA, and more are all using Spark to solve their big data problems!

Spark can perform up to 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce, which has caused an explosion in demand for this skill! Because the Spark 2.0 DataFrame framework is so new, you now have the ability to quickly become one of the most knowledgeable people in the job market!


What you will learn :

  • SparkSession and imports

  • Spark DataFrame and its characteristics

  • Syntax and example

  • Print results

  • Understanding the data

  • Number of records

  • Columns in dataFrame

  • Describe a DataFrame

  • Schema of a DataFrame

  • Create a new column

  • Arithmetic operations on Data

  • Change column data type

  • Create a column with integer as constant

  • Apply what we know

  • Rounding of digits

  • Sorting operation

  • Drop columns

  • Rename columns

  • Create a column with string as constant

  • Conditional Statements

  • Changing case of a column

  • Filter operations

  • Grouping and aggregations


Prerequisites :

  • Some basic programming skills (Not Mandatory)

  • Will to implement theoretical knowledge in practical.


Who this course is for:

  • Beginners who want to learn Big Data or experienced people who want to transition to a Big Data role

  • Big data beginners who want to learn how to code in the real world

  • Aspiring candidates for data engineering role

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Instructor Details

Akash Sunil Pawar

Akash Pawar is a Certified Google cloud Associate engineer. He has completed Bachelor of Technology in Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT, Rourkela) and has years of experience as a professional data engineer and trainer for ETL operations using PySpark. Over the course of his career he has developed a skill set in analyzing data and he hopes to use his experience in teaching and data engineering to help other people learn the power of programming, the ability to analyze data, and the skills needed to present the data in clear and beautiful visualizations. Previously he used to work as the Data Engineer in Fractal Analytics.

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Reviews

4.2

73 ratings on Udemy

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By Rajeev Singh on 1/11/2026

Very good for beginners and explaining concepts in very simple manner.

By Laxmi Bogam on 5/6/2023

Very helpful for me.

By Shantanu Jawale on 1/2/2023

Practical knowledge provided. Very helpful for me.

By Lili Duan on 1/2/2023

It is benefit to beginners very much. These are about the basic concept and functions. Hope there will be something connected with the project.

By Kiruba Arulkumaran on 12/22/2022

The way of presenting and the explaination is not upto the level to get the listeners'attention .

By Soumya Ranjan Sahoo on 11/11/2022

the duration is very less and it would be great if we have some more concept as well.

By Jolin on 10/27/2022

A short and sweet introduction for people who never touched pyspark. Was expecting more contents though, like the topic of function is entirely left out.

By Vitthal on 7/22/2022

Nicely explained...need more videos

By Deeksha Pandey on 6/15/2022

Really good course for beginners in Data Engineering, all the concepts are very well explained.

By Pratik Pawar on 6/9/2022

I'm doing my intern in Data engineering and this is what I was looking to start with.

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Overall Score : 84 / 100