Loading data on to Spark RDDs

In this section, we are going to look at loading data on to Spark RDDs, and will cover the following topics:

• The UCI machine learning data repository
• Getting data from the repository to Python
• Getting data into Spark

Let's start with an overview of the UCI machine learning data repository.

The UCI machine learning repository

We can access the UCI machine learning repository by navigating to https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/. So, what is the UCI machine learning repository? UCI stands for the University of California Irvine machine learning repository, and it is a very useful resource for getting open source and free datasets for machine learning. Although PySpark's main issue or solution...