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Practical Big Data Analytics

You're reading from Practical Big Data Analytics Hands-on techniques to implement enterprise analytics and machine learning using Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL and R

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783554393

Length 412 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Apache Spark

Concepts

Big Data

Author (1):

Nataraj Dasgupta

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Too Big or Not Too Big FREE CHAPTER

2. Big Data Mining for the Masses

3. The Analytics Toolkit

4. Big Data With Hadoop

5. Big Data Mining with NoSQL

6. Spark for Big Data Analytics

7. An Introduction to Machine Learning Concepts

8. Machine Learning Deep Dive

9. Enterprise Data Science

10. Closing Thoughts on Big Data

11. External Data Science Resources

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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In this section, we will create an account on Databricks' Community Edition and complete a hands-on exercise that will walk the reader through the basics of actions, transformations, and RDD concepts in general.

Signing up for Databricks Community Edition

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Go to https://databricks.com/try-databricks:

Click on the START TODAY button and enter your information:

Confirm that you have read and agree to the terms in the popup menu (scroll down to the bottom for the Agree button):

Check your email for a confirmation email from Databricks and click on the link to confirm your account:

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Authors (1)

Dasgupta

Dasgupta

Nataraj Dasgupta is the vice president of advanced analytics at RxDataScience Inc. Nataraj has been in the IT industry for more than 19 years, and has worked in the technical and analytics divisions of Philip Morris, IBM, UBS Investment Bank, and Purdue Pharma. At Purdue Pharma, Nataraj led the data science division, where he developed the company's award-winning big data and machine learning platform. Prior to Purdue, at UBS, he held the role of Associate Director, working with high-frequency and algorithmic trading technologies in the foreign exchange trading division of the bank.

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