Hearing a lot of mention of Data Lakes but still not sure what that means or why anyone cares? This video will cover a brief introduction to what a Data Lake is and why so many organizations are adding them to their analytics ecosystem. To show what interacting with a data lake may look like for a typical data analyst, I included a demo of how you would use Spark SQL to query the data lake from Azure Databricks.
Create Azure Databricks Cluster from the Portal
When getting started with Azure Databricks for data processing and analytics, you need to create at least one cluster to get started. Check out the video for a quick overview of how to do this from the Azure Portal. I include a quick description of the options you have and an overview of what cluster… Continue Reading