Re: Spark books

Thanks Stephen! I appreciate it very much. And yeah...Stephen is right on this. Go and read the notes and let me know where you're missing things :-) p.s. Holden has just announced that her book is complete and think Matei is also quite far with his writing. Jacek On 4 May 2017 2:52 a.m.,

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*"I would suggest do not buy any book, just start with databricks community edition"* I dont agree with above , "Learning Spark" book was definitely stepping stone for me. All the basics that one beginner can/will need is covered in very easy to understand format with examples. Great book!

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Zeming, Jacek also has a really good online spark book for spark 2, "mastering spark". I found it very helpful when trying to understand spark 2's encoders. his book is here: https://www.gitbook.com/book/jaceklaskowski/mastering-apache-spark/details On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Neelesh

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The Apache Spark documentation is good to begin with. All the programming guides, particularly. On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 5:07 PM, ayan guha wrote: > I would suggest do not buy any book, just start with databricks community > edition > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Tobi

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I would suggest do not buy any book, just start with databricks community edition On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Tobi Bosede wrote: > Well that is the nature of technology, ever evolving. There will always be > new concepts. If you're trying to get started ASAP and the

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Well that is the nature of technology, ever evolving. There will always be new concepts. If you're trying to get started ASAP and the internet isn't enough, I'd recommend buying a book and using Spark 1.6. A lot of production stacks are still on that version and the knowledge from mastering 1.6 is

Spark books

I'm trying to decide whether to buy the book learning spark, spark for machine learning etc. or wait for a new edition covering the new concepts like dataframe and datasets. Anyone got any suggestions?