Nandan Vatsyayan
2025/06/06
5 / 5
Highly recommend this book for beginners looking to get into Spark programming. Examples are shown with both Python and Scala. I found the authors writing style extremely pleasant. Being a technical book the explanations were very easy to follow. Complicated technical terms are explained in very simple english.
I have the kindle edition and noticed that the formulas on one of the pages on machine learning was slightly cutoff at the edges but I wont remove a star because of that. In my view there are tons of material online to understand those regression formulas. What really worked for me is how great a job the authors have done in explaining how to use Spark 3.0.
Since I am a Python and SQL user this book really benefits me at work. The syntax and function explains are very clear and with an online Databricks account one can really practice as you learn with an uncomplicated dataset. How to program the Dataframe API is really well covered.