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Overview

Learn how to harness the power of Apache Spark and powerful clusters running on the Azure Data bricks platform to run data science workloads in the cloud

Duration

8 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Credential

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Perform data science with Azure Databricks
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Microsoft 
Highlights

  • Learn how to use modules from the Spark's machine learning library for hyperparameter tuning and model selection
  • Understand the three main building blocks in the Spark's machine learning library: transformers, estimators, and pipelines
  • Learn how to use Delta Lake to create, append, and upsert data to Apache Spark tables, taking advantage of built-in reliability and optimizations
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Perform data science with Azure Databricks
 at 
Microsoft 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Describe Azure Data bricks
  • Spark architecture fundamentals
  • Read and write data in Azure Data bricks
  • Work with Data Frames in Azure Data bricks
  • Work with user-defined functions
More about this course
  • Discover the capabilities of Azure Data bricks and the Apache Spark notebook for processing huge files
  • Understand the Azure Data bricks platform and identify the types of tasks well-suited for Apache Spark
  • Learn how to perform data transformations in Data Frames and execute actions to display the transformed data
  • Understand the architecture of an Azure Data bricks Spark Cluster and Spark Jobs

Perform data science with Azure Databricks
 at 
Microsoft 
Curriculum

MODULE: 1 Describe Azure Data bricks

Explain Azure Data bricks

Create an Azure Data bricks workspace and cluster

Understand Azure Data bricks Notebooks

Exercise: Work with Notebooks

MODULE: 2 Spark architecture fundamentals

Understand the architecture of Azure Data bricks spark cluster

Understand the architecture of spark job

MODULE: 3 Read and write data in Azure Data bricks

Read data in CSV format

Read data in JSON format

Read data in Parquet format

Read data stored in tables and views

Exercises: Read and write data

MODULE: 4 Work with Data Frames in Azure Data bricks

Describe a Data Frame

Use common Data Frame methods

Use the display function

Exercise: Distinct articles

MODULE: 5 Work with user-defined functions

Write user defined functions

Exercise: Perform Extract, Transform, Load(ETL) operations using user-defined functions

MODULE: 6 Build and query a Delta Lake

Describe the open source Delta Lake

Exercise: Work with basic Delta Lake functionality

Describe how Azure Data bricks manages Delta Lake

Exercise: Use the Delta Lake Time Machine and perform optimization

MODULE: 7 Perform machine learning with Azure Data bricks

Understand machine learning

Exercise: Train a model and create predictions

Understand data using exploratory data analysis

Exercise: Perform exploratory data analysis

Describe machine learning workflows

Exercise: Build and evaluate a baseline machine learning model

MODULE: 8 Train a machine learning model

Perform featurization of the dataset

Exercise: Finish featurization of the dataset

Understand regression modeling

Exercise: Build and interpret a regression model

MODULE: 9 Work with ML flow in Azure Data bricks

Use MLflow to track experiments, log metrics, and compare runs

Exercise: Work with MLflow to track experiment metrics, parameters, artifacts and models

MODULE: 10 Perform model selection with hyperparameter tuning

Describe model selection and hyperparameter tuning

Exercise: Select optimal model by tuning hyperparameters

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