What you need for this book

Code samples provided in this book use Apache Spark 2.1 and its Scala API. Furthermore, we utilize the Sparkling Water package to access the H2O machine learning library. In each chapter, we show how to start Spark using spark-shell, and also how to download the data necessary to run the code.

In summary, the basic requirements to run the code provided in this book include:

•  Java 8
• Spark 2.1