Apache Spark with Scala - Hands On with Big Data!

Excellent looks fine The instructor knows the subject very well, and he presents each subject clearly and made each of the class easy to follow.

Excellent Course nice one Complete and useful, easy to follow.

The course is perfect - clean, straight and easy to follow.

Good teach, great examples Easy to follow, nice to watch.

the steps are simple and easy to follow.

Trying it yourself helps to lock in the information easy to follow steps, thank you!

Excellent course for a good introduction to Spark with a lot of easy to follow hands-on exercises.

Perfect course if you want to start with Scala and Spark just so easy to follow!!!

Easy to follow.

Thorough coverage of Spark with easy to follow examples.

The presenter is dynamic and direct, the lectures are easy to follow and direct.

He delivers this content at a steady pace, that is easy to follow, and pretty easy to digest.

I've learning a bunch of stuff about Scala and big data.

I would highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to switch their career in the world of Big data.

Coming from the AWS big data specialty course, and I like this teacher very much.

I'm working in a Big Data department for some months and I already knew some lessons, but you can always learn something new.

Additionally, it would be helpful to have a bit more content orienting folks to the wider big data universe.

Went into enough detail that I could begin working on a contract at a company just starting to get involved in Big Data and I was able to help them out.

I am from database background and wanted to put my steps in big data world and I found this course nicely organized which is very helpful for a beginner like me who came from a different background of IT industry.

Provides a really nice understanding of how spark works, especially with RDDs manipulation which seems to be a more flexible but not so trivial approach when dealing with big data.

Gives a ton of confidence to get started and do wonderful things on Big data.

Frank Kane is an excellent instructor, provides a clear and comprehensive explanation to all topics and hands-on exercises, definitely this course will be a reference material for my upcoming big data projects.

Excellent course.The only thing I had to pause and refer back is to understand the big picture in Big data and how all the various components connect to each other (obviously it is a different topic) but a small overview would have definitely helped.

Thank you for this awesome experience for the new guys to big data like me.

It was very detailed and step by step instructions..

The course needs to be updated to latest formats absolute perfect step by step guide for those looking to learn Spark with Scala.

very good and step by step instruction to install the required things Excellent boot camp on Scala.

Various examples and step by step instructions to solve different problems will diffidently put you on the best track to start your big data career or even a new page or stage of your career.

Very organized, step by step topics with sufficient examples to get the feel of the language and Spark environment.

Very nice presentation, good explanation (step by step).

It energizes you while following step by step Frank is an excellent teacher and his knowledge on the subject deep.

Very detailed explanation of the concepts with step by step instructions along with loads of examples to try.

:) Excellent course on the subject Good Learning step by step guidance was provided Easy to follow the course.

Good step by step Installation process explanation to understand easily.

Very clear and step by step instruction to follow.

Step by step information is very clear.

So far So Good!

I loved it So far so good It goes at a nice pace so far.

So far so good I've taken some of Franks classes before and I highly recommend them.

So far so good.. .hoping same for future lectures as well.

Excellent course Instructions to setup scala and running the first sample app is very clear Good Great Really thourough instructions, but not boring for somebody with programming experience 6 Very straightforward So far so good overview for software installation is very nice.

missing explanation and examples So far so good.

Lecture was good and helpful So far so good!

Yes Yes, so far so good good it was gooooooooooood I'm enjoying it.

-One betterment area would be still more real world examples.

It will be better if provide some scenarios/use cases of the real world projects.

Real world example is the main beauty of this course.

But, request to add/create a course for working in real world projects.

The materials touch upon all the features of spark, while solving real world problems using each one of them.

He really uses a lot of real world examples and applications to build up your skills.

I would recommend his classes to anyone who wishes to quickly gain knowledge about these topics from real world application perspective.

In the real world, I imagine there'll be a lot of data cleansing, data loading, etc issues which haven't been covered in the course yet.

The way the presenter explains real world problems and how analytical data is extracted from it is very convincing.

I would like to get more real world examples.I think this is too basic.

Needs more algorithms analysis tbh In real world, how do i build a Spark System?

i felt like i should be thought whats going on real world.... hadoop on windows is something was not expected here.

I highly recommend to anyone.

I highly recommend this.

I highly recommend it!

Highly recommend.

I highly recommend Frank and his courses.

Highly recommended!

Use of for loops rather than map, reduce, folds, etc.

is decidedly not functional and should be avoided rather than encouraged.

Write helper functions for simple cases rather than.

The whole reason for doing an online course rather than just watching videos is the interactive component, and the interactive component in the form of feedback for exercises and questions is absent here.

It spends too much time on RDDs rather than Spark SQL and also the streaming part is almost only dedicated to DStreams instead of structured streaming.

This is due to nature of Scala though (as it's notoriously difficult to learn) & subject matter difficulty rather than issue of the this excellent lecturer.

Covered all the basic things for Spark Very do-able exercises that are focused on how to use Spark rather than forcing the student to spend loads of time thinking about some contrived problem.

I like the material it is enriching but from time to time if there's code writing rather than just looking at a already written code.

Because the major focus here is to work on examples rather than understandin why and how spark should be used.

As someone who is eager to get coding I wish some of the earlier examples were more "code along with me" rather than "read this code", but now that the course is ramping up with coding problems it's a lot more along the lines of what I was expecting.

I'd like to see a more functional style of programming using recursion rather than iteration for traversing graphs.

I personally feel it would have been much better if there had been some graded exercises rather than serving everything on the plate.

Looking forward for more great tutorials from you ..Thanks Covers a lot of useful topics.

Looking forward to more courses :) Very good presentation and materials.

I'm looking forward getting to the other half of the course.

Looking forward to complete the course and do more advance courses.

Looking forward to the next lesson :-) He explained all the concepts well.

Pretty Good examples till now and the way it is being taught is very nice Clear, well explained, great examples and code Excellent teacher The basics of each concept is covered well with easy examples to follow, looking forward for the rest of the topics.

Looking forward to learn SPARK in deep now.

I am looking forward to learning quite a lot in this course.

For example this course not explain some basic concept for programming in scala using OOP.

For example, find 10 most popular superheros, I have learn how to find most popular one, but how get first 10 or last 10 ?

For example, the GraphX video explaining BFS done with Pregel.

For example, shuffling was mentioned several times, but nowhere did Frank take the time to explain the semantics of shuffling, and the considerations thereof.

For example if I read a csv file, is it always distributed?

For example, I have never worked with accumulators nor Map syntax.

The course was awesome...simply awesome... One area of improvement : Show us more examples on how we can use the Spark UI for EMR monitoring...for example...we just touched upon the topic of increasing executor-memory if we get OOM errors..we could have actually shown that and other small examples for EMR cluster section, in action It would have been easy if the author explained the solution in SQL before writes the code in Spark.

It's a great stating point for Apache Spark and Scala.

It is a good point for starting with Apache Spark and Scala I was looking for some more exercises with solutions.

there there only 2 up till now.

Very good explanation till now but having few confusion regarding tuples and spark functions.

Also, till now no reference has been made about sbt or maven for build purposes.

Good course till now, i like the exercises given Great Course Great Course !

Till now, i am able to understand about installation.

Learned a lot till now.

I found the lack of real-world use cases to also be a bit of a let down.

Starting to see how I can use all this knowledge at problems I have at work due to the interesting use cases presented.

Easy to follow and practical use cases superb course ..and way of explain everything it's great Done Excellent!