Data Science Specialization - EICT, IITR

#1

In course Data Science Specialization is Spark concepts as well as Machine Learning with Spark is covered in python ?
Alsp is Pyspark covered in the course ?

#2

In Data Science Specialization, we cover the three topics:

  1. Data Engineering
    1.1 Hadoop
    1.1.1 Mapreduce is covered in Shell scripting, Python and Java.
    1.1.2 Hive - requires the basic knowledge of SQL. A free tutorial is provided on SQL.
    1.1.3 Rest of the tools are covered using the Linux console along with theory. A tutorial on Linux is also provided.
    1.2 Spark - All of the topics are covered using Scala: Spark programming using spark-shell, spark-submit, SparkSQL, Stream processing with Spark and Kafka and ML with Spark. A complementary tutorial of scala is also provided. Also, a brief of how to use with Python is also provided.

  2. Machine Learning
    2.1 Core Machine Learning is done using Python and Scikit Learn. A course on Python is provided.
    2.2 Deep Learning is taught using Python and Tensorflow

I hope this helps.