SA
4.0Reviewed Jul 2, 2023
Overall good course to kick start. More basics could be covered.
This course is too short and too simple. I was expecting some details in Pyspark or mechanism in RDD. But nothing was shown but just some SQL operations.
Data Analysis Using Pyspark
One of the important topics that every data analyst should be familiar with is the distributed data processing technologies. As a data analyst, you should be able to apply different queries to your dataset to extract useful information out of it. but what if your data is so big that working with it on your local machine is not easy to be done. That is when the distributed data processing and Spark Technology will become handy. So in this project, we are going to work with pyspark module in python and we are going to use google colab environment in order to apply some queries to the dataset we have related to lastfm website which is an online music service where users can listen to different songs. This dataset is containing two csv files listening.csv and genre.csv. Also, we will learn how we can visualize our query results using matplotlib.
Status: Python Programming
Status: Query Languages
IntermediateGuided Project2 hours
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DM
5.0Reviewed Nov 14, 2020
Best guided project for an introduction to the PySpark
VB
5.0Reviewed Dec 10, 2021
quick start for a newbie with most basic information covered here, worth it.
SA
4.0Reviewed Aug 20, 2020
Ok, but needs a longer explanation of the functions that are used and its range of possibilites.
AK
5.0Reviewed Oct 31, 2023
Great Course, appropriate to begin the journey with Pysparks
AA
4.0Reviewed Jan 22, 2022
Quick and good course on pyspark for someone who is familiar with Pandas. Although some more depth can be added to the course by giving short brief on Spark and how it works.
SC
5.0Reviewed Jan 7, 2022
This project is really good. Gives you a hands-on experience on PySpark. I was able to write complex queries on my own after a while in this project. Very useful.
AM
4.0Reviewed Jan 29, 2021
It would have been better if more foundations of Spark framework had been provided
AB
5.0Reviewed Feb 4, 2025
Great introductory course in PySpark. Instructor gives time for you to formulate your response. Focuses on practice via repetition to help you build a strong grasp of basic syntax and functions.
AS
5.0Reviewed Aug 4, 2020
all is great except the idea of struct function it is a little bit confusing .however all awesome hand-on practice please do more coursers
DE
5.0Reviewed Nov 1, 2020
This course has help equip me with a lot of experience on data analysis and i really love it. Thank you Ahmad Varasteh.A big thanks to Coursera for creating such a wonderful opportunity.
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Longlong Feng
1.0
Reviewed Aug 25, 2020upendra madam
1.0
Reviewed Oct 18, 2020Too easy for intermediate level.
Иван Темиров
4.0
Reviewed Aug 18, 2020Instructor is great but the project itself is very short and shallow. If you have no idea where to start - it's ok to start with this course, but if you already have little practice with pandas or want to know how to use PySpark in real HDFS environment - i'm afraid it wont be helpful.
Gabriel Mendoza
3.0
Reviewed Nov 26, 2020The execution of this course is pretty good. But I wished the PySpark part was way bigger. It's basically a 3 minute introduction into PySpark and the rest done using Spark-like sql-queries.
Agbaeze Henry
3.0
Reviewed Aug 6, 2020Interesting but no dept
Ahmed Salam
5.0
Reviewed Aug 5, 2020all is great except the idea of struct function it is a little bit confusing .however all awesome hand-on practice please do more coursers
Silvia Gloria Tamburini
5.0
Reviewed Nov 24, 2022Totally loved this course! This is the first time I've used the Coursera Project format, and I've found that it's a great environment to a first, practical introduction to a very specific topic. Yes, this is a very basic introduction, you will not have theoretical lessons about Spark and its functionalities, but you'll dive right in Pyspark and write commands on a dataset. Projects are done in the Google Colab platform, so that the code you did will be available on your profile even after the course ended.
Antoine CARRE
5.0
Reviewed Apr 1, 2022Très bon projet pour prendre en main PySpark et me permettre de me sentir plus à l'aise avec les subtitlité de cette biblitotèque, en comparaison de Pandas.
Encore merci pour cet exercie rapide mais vraient efficace pour monter en compétence sur le Big Data
Papoj Thamjaroenporn
5.0
Reviewed Apr 13, 2025I wanted to refresh my own PySpark skills and this course provides a short and sweet recap of PySpark. Easy to follow. Examples are practical and useful. I would recommend this course to anyone who needs a quick introduction to PySpark.
Adib Behjat
5.0
Reviewed Feb 5, 2025Great introductory course in PySpark. Instructor gives time for you to formulate your response. Focuses on practice via repetition to help you build a strong grasp of basic syntax and functions.
Derek Edwin Essiaw
5.0
Reviewed Nov 1, 2020This course has help equip me with a lot of experience on data analysis and i really love it. Thank you Ahmad Varasteh.
A big thanks to Coursera for creating such a wonderful opportunity.
Shreeya Chafekar
5.0
Reviewed Jan 8, 2022This project is really good. Gives you a hands-on experience on PySpark. I was able to write complex queries on my own after a while in this project. Very useful.
Oliver Emmanuel Argote Brito
5.0
Reviewed Jul 5, 2021It is very good, just basic, but if someone has already knowledge in SQL and Python is more than enough to get started.
vignesh babu bm
5.0
Reviewed Dec 11, 2021quick start for a newbie with most basic information covered here, worth it.
Akshay Kalia
5.0
Reviewed Nov 1, 2023Great Course, appropriate to begin the journey with Pysparks
Devvrat Mungekar
5.0
Reviewed Nov 14, 2020Best guided project for an introduction to the PySpark
Francesco Angeli
5.0
Reviewed Feb 23, 2022Perfect for understand the pyspark bases
Batchu Varun
5.0
Reviewed Sep 6, 2023it was an excellent hands on experience
Shivam Ghodke
5.0
Reviewed Feb 10, 2022good way to start learning pyspark!
Kishore Kumar V
5.0
Reviewed Jun 26, 2021This is perfect hands on workshop!