Master Apache Spark, a popular cluster computing framework used for performing large scale data analysis. SparkR provides a distributed data frame API that enables structured data processing with a syntax familiar to R users. <ul class='mylist'> <li>Learn why R is a popular statistical programming language with a number of extensions that support data processing and machine learning tasks.</li> <li>Learn how SparkR, an R package that provides a light-weight frontend, uses Apache Spark from R.</li> </ul>

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<ul class='mylist'> <li>Module 1 - Introduction to SparkR <ul class='list-group'> <li>Learn what SparkR is</li> <li>Understand why you would use SparkR</li> <li>List the features of SparkR</li> <li>Understand the interfaces into SparkR</li> </ul> </li> <li>Module 2 - Data manipulation in SparkR <ul class='list-group'> <li>Understand how to use dataframes</li> <li>Learn to select data</li> <li>Learn to filter data</li> <li>Learn to aggregate data</li> <li>Learn to operate on columns</li> <li>Understand how to write SQL queries</li> </ul> </li> <li>Lab 1 - Getting started with SparkR</li> <li>Lab 2 - Data manipulation in SparkR</li> <li>Module 3 - Machine learning in SparkR <ul class='list-group'> <li>Understand machine learning</li> <li>Learn how to use GLM model</li> </ul> </li> <li>Lab 3 - Linear models in SparkR</li> </ul>

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<div class='teacher-image'> <img src='https://courses.myclass.skillup.online/asset-v1:BDU+RP0105EN+v1+type@asset+block@Alan-Barnes-300x300.jpg' align='left' width='115' style='margin:0 20px 0 0' alt='Course Staff Image #1'> </div> <h5 class='color54 font-18 font-weight-500'>Alan Barnes</h5> Alan Barnes is a Senior IBM Information Management Course Developer / Consultant. He has worked in several companies as a Senior Technical Consultant, Database Team Manager, Application Programmer, Systems Programmer, Business Analyst, DB2 Team Lead and more. His career in IT spans more than 35 years.

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