Setting up your workspace
As defined previously, the workspace discussed in this section refers to the deployment instance. Here, we will discuss workspace setup recommendations, project setup files, and download instructions for each dataset used throughout this book.
There is comprehensive documentation on deploying your workspace for the first time. If you do not already have a Databricks account and deployed workspace, then you have a couple of places to start from. One method is going into your cloud account and activating Databricks through the marketplaces. Another method is to begin on the Databricks website. For more advanced users, consider using Terraform. Given the amount of documentation and the ever-changing world of technology, we leave the exercise of activating a workspace up to you.
Once we have a workspace deployed, we can begin setting it up. Generally, we start with user groups and governance. The experience of setting up Unity Catalog is frequently updated...
