An Overview of Apache Spark
Channel: Jim Scott
Date: 2014-09-11

I wrote a book, Getting Started with Apache Spark. It is available for FREE here: https://www.mapr.com/getting-started-apache-spark

Please join us as Jim Scott, CHUG co-founder and Director Enterprise Strategy and Architecture for MapR presents "An Overview of Apache Spark" to the St. Louis Hadoop Users Group.

Jim has held positions running Operations, Engineering, Architecture and QA teams. He has worked in the Consumer Packaged Goods, Digital Advertising, Digital Mapping, Chemical and Pharmaceutical industries. His work with high-throughput computing at Dow Chemical was a precursor to more standardized big data concepts like Hadoop.