Integrating Azure Data Lake and running Spark pool jobs
In this recipe, we’ll explore how to integrate Azure Data Lake with a Spark pool in Azure Synapse Analytics. By combining these services, we can unlock powerful data processing and analysis workflows. We’ll cover the steps to establish the connection, run Spark jobs, and leverage the capabilities of both services. Get ready to harness the potential of Azure Data Lake and Spark pools for efficient and scalable data processing.
Getting ready
Let’s load and preprocess the MovieLens dataset (F. Maxwell Harper and Joseph A. Konstan. 2015. The MovieLens Datasets: History and Context. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) 5, 4: 19:1–19:19. https://doi.org/10.1145/2827872). It contains ratings and free-text tagging activity from a movie recommendation service.
The MovieLens dataset exists in a few sizes, which have the same structure. The smallest one has 100,000 ratings, 600...