Spark
If you like applying Spark, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Mine Basket History to Justify Grocery Shelf-Adjacency Changes
Work only from the materials provided. Use the basket transactions extract to mine frequent itemsets with FP-growth, tuning the minimum support level separately for the food, ho…
- Frequent Itemset Mining
- Fp Growth
- Spark
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Halve a Daily Spark Bill Without Breaking the SLA
Work only from the materials in this file. Read the representative PySpark module (PULSE-JOB) and the cluster configuration (PULSE-CLUSTER) to understand how the nightly job is …
- Spark
- Cost Optimization
- Etl Pipelines
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Migrate a 200TB Data Lake from Parquet to Iceberg
Receive an inventory of the 200TB hot tier (around 1,200 tables, around 38 PB of historical data referenced), the current Spark + Trino read patterns, and 6 months of schema-cha…
- Iceberg
- Parquet
- Data Lake
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems
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