In one of the previous blog posts, we discussed how to get Apache Spark up and running on your Ubuntu box. In this post, we will start exploring it. One of the best things about Spark is that it comes with a Python API that works like a charm! The API also available in Java, Scala, and R. That pretty much covers the entire world of programming and data science! Spark’s shell provides a great way to analyze our data and work with it interactively. We are going to see how to interact with Spark Python API in this post. You would have downloaded Spark on your machine. Let’s go into “spark-1.5.1” directory on your terminal and get started, shall we?   Continue reading “Getting Started With Apache Spark In Python” →