michael stiller

Have you heard about the power of PySpark? 
Jonathan Rioux joining Michael and Lior for an amazing episode talking about the power of Spark, and Python as well as why he decided to write an entire book about PySpark. 

In today’s episode, we have Jonathan Rioux, he leads the data science operations for EPAM Canada and writes a book about large-scale data analysis.

 Michael and I talked with Jonathan about setting your spark cluster using python, what should you know about it, why he started writing his book.

Michael went into the technical details as he loves, and I stayed focus on the product, enjoy this episode!

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanrx/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lejonesberg
Link to Jonathan's book: https://www.manning.com/books/data-analysis-with-python-and-pyspark

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Marcello Is a senior software engineer at Tundra.com, Author of "Algorithms and Data Structures in Action", His work and interests focus on graphs, optimization algorithms, genetic algorithms, machine learning, and quantum computing.
What have talked with him about:

• Why do you go by "Software Engineer" instead of something with more buzzwords?
• How to have better cooperation between business, engineering, and analytics?
• What is the difference between a model and an algorithm? How are they related? Which job profiles are connected to them?
• Will the areas of data science, analytics, and engineering converge in the future or become even more specialized?

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You can find him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcellolarocca/

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