dscc 402-202 Data Science at Scale

Establishing a GitHub account if your do not already have one

Sign up for a new github account

Fork the class repository into your account

Fork the dsc402 repositiory into your new account. Note: this will create a copy of the course repo for you to add and work on within your own account.
Goto https://github.com/lpalum/dsc402.git and hit the fork button while you are logged into your github account:

Clone your copy of the dsc402 repository to get the class materials on your machine

git clone https://github.com/[your account name]/dsc402.git
note: you may want to clone this repo into a dirtory on your machine that you organize for code e.g. /home//code/github

note: /home/[your account name] should be /Users/[your account name] to work with the paths that are defined in Mac OS X.

Sign-up for the Community Edition of Databricks and import archives

Databrick Community Edition FAQ

Here is some helpful information about importing archives into to the Databricks Envioronment: https://docs.databricks.com/notebooks/notebooks-manage.html#import-a-notebook

import the DBC archive from the Learning Spark v2 github repositiory into your account. DBC Archive

import the DBC archive for Project 1 from this repositiory into your account. Project 1 Archive

Running your own local Spark Environment on your Computer [optional]

Install docker on your computer

Pull the all-spark-notebook image from docker hub:
https://hub.docker.com/r/lpalum/dsc402
Launch the docker image to open a Jupyter Lab instance in your local browser:
docker run -it --rm -p 8888:8888 --name all-spark --volume /home/[your account name]/code/github:/home/jovyan/work lpalum/dsc402 start.sh jupyter lab

This will start a jupyter lab instance on your machine that you will be able to access at port 8888 in your browser and it will mount the github repo that you previouly cloned into the containers working directory.