Learn how to use PySpark in under 5 minutes (Installation + Tutorial)

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commentsBy Georgios Drakos, Data Scientist at TUII’ve found that is a little difficult to get started with Apache Spark (this will focus on PySpark) and install it on local machines for most people. With this simple tutorial you’ll get there really fast!Apache Spark is a must for Big data’s lovers as it is a fast, easy-to-use general engine for big data processing with built-in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing. This technology is an in-demand skill for data engineers, but also data scientists can benefit from learning Spark when doing Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), feature extraction and, of course, ML. But please remember that Spark is only truly realized when it is run on a cluster with a large number of nodes.Table of ContentsIntroductionSpark definitionSpark ApplicationInstall PySpark on MacOpen Jupyter Notebook with PySparkLaunching a SparkSessionConclussionReferencesIntroduction Apache Spark is one of the hottest and largest open source proj…