Course Outline

Introduction

Overview of Data Access Approaches (Hive, databases, etc.)

Overview of Spark Features and Architecture

Installing and Configuring Spark

Understanding Dataframes in Spark

Defining Tables and Importing Datasets

Querying Data Frames using SQL

Carrying out Aggregations, JOINs and Nested Queries

Uploading and Accessing Data

Querying Different Types of Data

  • JSON, Parquet, etc.

Querying Data Lakes with SQL

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • Experience with SQL queries
  • Programming experience in any language

Audience

  • Data analysts
  • Data scientists
  • Data engineers
  7 Hours
 

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