PySpark Foundations: Process, analyze, and summarize data

Course Overview

Did you know that a billion records are processed daily in PySpark by companies worldwide? As big data is on the rise, you’ll need tools like PySpark to process massive amounts of data. This guided project was designed to introduce data analysts and data science beginners to data analysis in PySpark. By the end of this 2-hour-long guided project, you’ll create a Jupyter Notebook that processes, analyzes, and summarizes data using PySpark. Specifically, you will set up a PySpark environment, explore and clean large data, aggregate and summarize data, and visualize data using real-life examples. By working on hands-on tasks related to analyzing employee data for an HR department, you will gain a solid knowledge of data aggregation and summarization with PySpark, helping you acquire job-ready skills. You don’t need any experience in PySpark, but knowledge of Python, including familiarity with basic Python syntax and data frame operations like filtering, grouping, and summarizing data, is essential to succeed in this project. Think you are ready? Let's take a deep dive into this insightful project.