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Data Science with Spark and Scala

###Topics Explored

• Scala ~ Tantra
• Spark ~ Tej
• Data Science
• Build tool called SBT
• Distributed DataBases Query Engines

###Introduction to Scala

####Basics

• Scala foundation
• Features of Scala
• Setup Spark and Scala on Unbuntu and Windows OS
• Install IDE's for Scala
• Run Scala Codes on Scala Shell
• Understanding Data types in Scala
• Implementing Lazy Values
• Control Structures
• Looping Structures
• Functions
• Procedures
• Collections
• Arrays and Array Buffers
• Map's, Tuples and Lists

####Object Oriented Programming in Scala

• Implementing Classes
• Implementing Getter & Setter
• Object & Object Private Fields
• Implementing Nested Classes
• Using Auxilary Constructor
• Primary Constructor
• Companion Object
• Apply Method
• Understanding Packages
• Override Methods
• Type Checking
• Casting
• Abstract Classes

####Functional Programming in Scala

• Understanding Functional programming in Scala
• Implementing Traits
• Layered Traits
• Rich Traits
• Anonymous Functions
• Higher Order Functions
• Closures and Currying
• Performing File Processing

####Breeze ~ Linear Algebra

###Introduction to Spark

What is Spark?

• Review: From Hadoop MapReduce to Spark
• Review: HDFS
• Review: YARN
• Spark Overview

Spark Basics

• Using the Spark Shell
• RDDs (Resilient Distributed Datasets)
• Functional Programming in Spark

####Working with RDDs in Spark

• Creating RDDs
• Other General RDD Operations

####Aggregating Data with Pair RDDs

• Key-Value Pair RDDs
• Map-Reduce
• Other Pair RDD Operations

Writing and Deploying Spark Applications

• Spark Applications vs. Spark Shell
• Creating the SparkContext
• Building a Spark Application (Scala and Java)
• Running a Spark Application
• The Spark Application Web UI
• Hands-On Exercise: Write and Run a Spark Application
• Configuring Spark Properties
• Logging

Parallel Processing

• Review: Spark on a Cluster
• RDD Partitions
• Partitioning of File-based RDDs
• HDFS and Data Locality
• Executing Parallel Operations
• Stages and Tasks

Spark RDD Persistence

• RDD Lineage
• RDD Persistence Overview
• Distributed Persistence

####Spark Streaming

• Spark Streaming Overview
• Example: Streaming Request Count
• DStreams
• Developing Spark Streaming Applications
• Multi-Batch Operations
• State Operations
• Sliding Window Operations
• Advanced Data Sources

####Common Patterns in Spark Data Processing

• Common Spark Use Cases
• Iterative Algorithms in Spark
• Graph Processing and Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Example: k-means

Improving Spark Performance

• Shared Variables: Broadcast Variables
• Shared Variables: Accumulators
• Common Performance Issues
• Diagnosing Performance Problems

####Spark SQL and DataFrames

• Spark SQL and the SQL Context
• Creating DataFrames
• Transforming and Querying DataFrames
• Saving DataFrames
• DataFrames and RDDs
• Comparing Spark SQL, Impala and Hive-on-Spark

####Spark Machine Learning

• MLLib
• ML

####GraphX

• Basics
• Neo4j

##Data Science

####Machine Learning in Scala

Project Structure

• Android : Android + Scala integration!
• docs : All reference materials
• data : Datasets used in the implementation

##Build Environment Linux Ubuntu 12.04+

Git Links

• aja

##Wiki

• How to start?

Contribution

• How to set up GIT

Let us begin our jouney from here!

Contact: mageswaran1989@gmail.com