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Introducing Project Lighthouse, an initiative developed by Advancing Analytics to optimize the Modern Data Lakehouse architecture to solve the specific challenges faced when implementing Walmart Luminate data feeds.
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At the Data + AI Summit, Simon delivered a session on “Achieving Lakehouse Models with Spark 3.0“. During the session there were a load of great questions. Here the questions and the answers from Simon. Drop a comment if you were in the session and have any follow up questions!
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We are heading to Denmark in May to deliver 2 of our training course. We kick off with 2 days looking at Azure Data Factory, followed by another 2 days of Databricks. It will be an awesome 2 days. See you there.
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We are heading to Denmark in December to deliver 2 of our training course. We kick off with 2 days looking at Azure Data Factory, followed by another 2 days of Databricks. It will be an awesome 2 days. See you there.
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In this video Terry takes you though the key components of Spark ML. We then build a very basic model demonstrating the key parts, using Kaggle’s Black Friday data to produce a regression model to predict spend on Black Friday.
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In this video Terry takes you though DataFrame caching, persist and unpersist. This is vital information you need to know to get the best performance from Spark.
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In this video Simon takes you though how write data from a Spark DataFrame to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. While this may sound simple, to get the most from Azure SQL Data Warehouse, you need to be using Polybase to read in data.
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In this video Simon takes you though how to begin working with partitioned data in Azure Databricks.
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In this video Simon takes you though how to read and write data in various formats. We also look at a deep dive on Parquet.
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In this video Simon takes you though how to use the SQL API in Azure Databricks. If you come from a more traditional data analytics background then you will be no stranger to SQL. In this video we explore how to register a temporary table and start querying it with SQL.
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In this video Simon takes you though how to join DataFrames in Azure Databricks
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In this video Terry takes a look at transformations and Actions in Spark. We discuss how the Catalyst engine works and demo a Spark DAG..
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In this video Terry takes you through how to ,make a connection from Azure Databricks to Data Lake Gen 2. We also look at secrets and discuss best practices on how to securely store keys in Azure Databricks.
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In this video Terry takes you through how to use Notebook widgets. Widgets allow you to create a parameter driven notebooks which integrates with scheduled jobs and Azure Data Factory. Widgets allow you to create a generic notebook which can solve multiple problems.
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In this video Simon takes you though the basics of how to Version Control Notebooks in Git with Azure DevOps. We look at how link a notebook with Azure DevOps, how to see the notebook history and how to commit your changes to Git.
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