Hands-On Big Data Analytics with PySpark
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 182 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook (March 29, 2019)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 183864413X
- ISBN-13: 978-1838644130
eBook Description:
Hands-On Big Data Analytics with PySpark: Use PySpark to easily crush messy data at-scale and discover proven techniques to create testable, immutable, and easily parallelizable Spark jobs
Apache Spark is an open source parallel-processing framework that has been around for quite some time now. One of the many uses of Apache Spark is for data analytics applications across clustered computers. In this book, you will not only learn how to use Spark and the Python API to create high-performance analytics with big data, but also discover techniques for testing, immunizing, and parallelizing Spark jobs.
You will learn how to source data from all popular data hosting platforms, including HDFS, Hive, JSON, and S3, and deal with large datasets with PySpark to gain practical big data experience. This book will help you work on prototypes on local machines and subsequently go on to handle messy data in production and at scale. This book covers installing and setting up PySpark, RDD operations, big data cleaning and wrangling, and aggregating and summarizing data into useful reports. You will also learn how to implement some practical and proven techniques to improve certain aspects of programming and administration in Apache Spark.
By the end of the Hands-On Big Data Analytics with PySpark book, you will be able to build big data analytical solutions using the various PySpark offerings and also optimize them effectively.