Who this book is for

I wrote this book for people who have at least some programming or scripting experience in their background. We're going to be using the Python programming language throughout this book, which is very easy to pick up, and I'm going to give you over 15 real hands-on examples of Spark Python scripts that you can run yourself, mess around with, and learn from. So, by the end of this book, you should have the skills needed to actually turn business problems into Spark problems, code up that Spark code on your own, and actually run it in the cluster on your own.