New course: Intro to Spark with Sparklyr!

We've launched our first Apache Spark course, and it's absolutely free! Learn how you can interface Spark and R using SparklyR to work with big data! You'll get to practice your new skills building a predictor using the million songs dataset. [DataCamp]( New Course! [SparklyR]( Introduction to Spark in R using sparklyr Taught by Richie Cotton, Instructor at DataCamp This free course teaches you how to manipulate Spark DataFrames using both the dplyr interface and the native Spark interface, as well as trying machine learning techniques. [Play now ›]( Intro to Spark: What You'll Learn Light My Fire: Starting To Use Spark With dplyr Syntax Learn how Spark and R complement each other Tools of the Trade: Advanced dplyr Usage Learn about advanced field selection, calculating groupwise statistics, and joining data frames. Going Native: Use The Native Interface to Manipulate Spark DataFrames Discover Spark's machine learning data transformation features. Case Study: Learning to be a Machine: Running Machine Learning Models on Spark Use sparklyr's machine learning routines to predict the year in which a song was released. [Play now ›]( DataCamp Inc. 2067 Massachusetts avenue Cambridge MA 02140 [Unsubscribe](