Apache Spark with Scala - Hands On with Big Data!

Apache Spark tutorial with 20+ hands-on examples of analyzing large data sets, on your desktop or on Hadoop with Scala!

4.5 ★★★★★103,066 studentsCreated by Frank Kane, Sundog Education by Frank Kane, Sundog Education TeamLast updated Nov 13, 2025🌐 English

What you'll learn

✓Develop distributed code using the Scala programming language

✓Transform structured data using SparkSQL, DataSets, and DataFrames

✓Frame big data analysis problems as Apache Spark scripts

✓Optimize Spark jobs through partitioning, caching, and other techniques

✓Build, deploy, and run Spark scripts on Hadoop clusters

✓Process continual streams of data with Spark Streaming

✓Traverse and analyze graph structures using GraphX

✓Analyze massive data set with Machine Learning on Spark

Requirements

•Some prior programming or scripting experience is required. A crash course in Scala is included, but you need to know the fundamentals of programming in order to pick it up.

•You will need a desktop PC and an Internet connection. The course is created with Windows in mind, but users comfortable with MacOS or Linux can use the same tools.

•The software needed for this course is freely available, and I'll walk you through downloading and installing it.