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This short course introduces you to the fundamentals of Data Engineering and Machine Learning with Apache Spark, including Spark Structured Streaming, ETL for Machine Learning (ML) Pipelines, and Spark ML. By the end of the course, you will have hands-on experience applying Spark skills to ETL and ML workflows.
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Apache® Spark™ is a fast, flexible, and developer-friendly open-source platform for large-scale SQL, batch processing, stream processing, and machine learning. Users can take advantage of its open-source ecosystem, speed, ease of use, and analytic capabilities to work with Big Data in new ways.
In this short course, you explore concepts and gain hands-on skills to use Spark for data engineering and machine learning applications. You'll learn about Spark Structured Streaming, including data sources, output modes, operations. Then, explore how Graph theory works and discover how GraphFrames supports Spark DataFrames and popular algorithms.
Organizations can acquire data from structured and unstructured sources and deliver the data to users in formats they can use. Learn how to use Spark for extract, transform and load (ETL) data. Then, you'll hone your newly acquired skills during your "ETL for Machine Learning Pipelines" lab.
Next, discover why machine learning practitioners prefer Spark. You'll learn how to create pipelines and quickly implement features for extraction, selections, and transformations on structured data sets. Discover how to perform classification and regression using Spark. You'll be able to define and identify both supervised and unsupervised learning. Learn about clustering and how to apply the k-mean s clustering algorithm using Spark MLlib. You'll reinforce your knowledge with focused, hands-on labs and a final project where you will apply Spark to a real-world inspired problem.
Prior to taking this course, please ensure you have foundational Spark knowledge and skills, for example, by first completing the IBM course titled "Big Data, Hadoop and Spark Basics."
Foundational Apache Spark knowledge and skills.
Module 1 – Spark for Data Engineering
Spark Structured Streaming
GraphFrames on Apache Spark
ETL Workloads
Hands-on Lab: ETL for ML Pipelines
Module 2 – Spark ML for Machine Learning
Spark ML Fundamentals
Spark ML Regression and Classification
Spark ML Clustering
Module 3 – Final Project
o Lab: Setup & Practice Assignment
o Project Overview
o Lab: Final Assignment Project
o Project Submission & Grading
Who can take this course?
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Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners residing in one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. edX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
