An Introduction to Spark with R by Edgar Ruiz, Software Engineer

With information growing at exponential rates, it’s no surprise that historians are referring to this period of history as the Information Age. The increasing speed at which data is being collected has created new opportunities and is certainly poised to create even more.
Apache Spark been a leading tool that is democratizing our ability to process large datasets, there comes `sparklyr`, a project merging R and Spark into a powerful tool that is easily accessible to all R users.
During this webinar, Edgar would take us through:
- basic understanding of Apache Spark,
- installing the sparklyr package in rstudio,
- reading data with sparklyr package, and finally
- a simple example of modeling your data
Slides and Codes: github.com/edg...