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Streaming Data from the Universe with Apache Kafka

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You might think that data collection in astronomy consists of a lone astronomer pointing a telescope at a single object in a static sky. While that may be true in some cases (I collected the data for my Ph.D. thesis this way), the field of astronomy is rapidly changing into a data-intensive science with real-time needs.

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50 PySpark Interview Questions and Answers For 2023

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show(truncate=False) #Drop duplicates on selected columns dropDisDF = df.dropDuplicates(["department","salary"]) print("Distinct count of department salary : "+str(dropDisDF.count())) dropDisDF.show(truncate=False) } Get FREE Access to Data Analytics Example Codes for Data Cleaning, Data Munging, and Data Visualization Q6.

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100+ Big Data Interview Questions and Answers 2023

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There are three steps involved in the deployment of a big data model: Data Ingestion: This is the first step in deploying a big data model - Data ingestion, i.e., extracting data from multiple data sources. It ensures that the data collected from cloud sources or local databases is complete and accurate.

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Top 100 Hadoop Interview Questions and Answers 2023

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Hadoop vs RDBMS Criteria Hadoop RDBMS Datatypes Processes semi-structured and unstructured data. Processes structured data. Schema Schema on Read Schema on Write Best Fit for Applications Data discovery and Massive Storage/Processing of Unstructured data. are all examples of unstructured data.

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