Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics

Date & Time: Wed., July 6, 2022 • 1–3 p.m. CT

Instructor:

• Jian Tao | Texas A&M’s School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts | jtao@tamu.edu

Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the basics of Cloud Computing and its benefits.
• Become familiar with Spark APIs and its basic abstractions like Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) and DataFrame.
• Use PySpark for Exploratory Data Analysis.
• Learn to use PySpark SQL queries to extract useful information from large scale data sets.
• Build machine learning models with PySpark.
• Create machine learning pipelines with PySpark.

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