Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

Adding external dependencies to Zeppelin

Sooner or later, we will be depending on external libraries than that don't come bundled with Zeppelin. For instance, we might need, a library for CSV or import or RDBMS data import. Let's see how to load a MySQL database driver and visualize data from a table.

In order to load a mysql connector Java driver, we just need to specify the group ID, artifact ID, and version number, and the JAR gets downloaded from the Maven repository. %dep indicates that the paragraph adds a dependency, and the z implicit variable represents the Zeppelin context:

The only thing that we need to watch out for while using %dep is ...