Big Data Analytics with Spark: A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Spark for Large-Scale Data Processing, Machine Learning, and Graph Analytics, and High-Velocity Data Stream Processing

Introduction

This book is a concise and easy-to-understand tutorial for big data and Spark. It will help you learn how to use Spark for a variety of big data analytic tasks. It covers everything that you need to know to productively use Spark.

One of the benefits of purchasing this book is that it will help you learn Spark efficiently; it will save you a lot of time. The topics covered in this book can be found on the Internet. There are numerous blogs, presentations, and YouTube videos covering Spark. In fact, the amount of material on Spark can be overwhelming. You could spend months reading bits and pieces about Spark at different places on the Web. This book provides a better alternative with the content nicely organized and presented in ...