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Data Analysis with Spark

Zalando Engineering

The processes that run the computation and store data of your application are executors: Returns computed data to the driver. For Big Data processing, the most common form of data is key-value pairs. Spark enables us to project down such complex data types to key-value pairs as Pair RDD.

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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2024?

Knowledge Hut

The job of a data engineer is to develop models using machine learning to scan, label and organize this unstructured data. This process helps convert the unstructured data into structured data, which can easily be collected and interpreted using analytical tools.