Spark: A Gentle Introduction

Spark is a cluster-computing framework for processing large volumes of data. In this talk I will give a broad introduction to Spark, covering the following core topics:

• Spark versus MapReduce;
• RDDs, DataFrames and Datasets;
• installation and setup;
• access from Python or R; and
• using the Machine Learning Library.

I won't promise to make you an expert, but I'll be sharing tips and resources which will help you get started.