Week 13 (April 19 – April 25)

Monday, April 19 (6:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M., Zoom) Class Session 13
Session Link	You may join the session using this link. Use 5h509p as the session password. Please use a headset.
Topics	I will be demonstrating the PySpark capability of the Apache Spark platform this week during class.
Other Resources	Wikipedia contributors. (2021, April 9). Apache Spark. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Apache Spark Project PySpark Documentation LinkedIn Learning (2019). Introduction to SparkSQL and DataFrames with Dan Sullivan. Kupferschmidt, K. (2020). Spark vs Pandas, part 1 – Pandas. In Towards Data Science. Kupferschmidt, K. (2020). Spark vs Pandas, part 2 – Spark. In Towards Data Science.

Sunday, April 25 (9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M., Zoom) Optional Session
Session Link	You may join the session using this link. Use 6v438r as the session password. Please use a headset.
Lab Session	On Sunday mornings from 9:00 AM till 10:00 AM, I will be holding an optional Lab Session using Zoom. Please drop by to ask a question, to discuss solutions to previous assignments, to get help with the current assignment, to discuss the final project, or just to say hello.

Schedule Note
There are no weekly assignments due this week. Instead, I am expecting you to spend time working on the Final Project.

Weekly Course Schedule – Spring 2021