Discusses advanced Spark optimization techniques for managing big data efficiently, focusing on parallelization, shuffle operations, and memory management.
Explores memory organization, virtualization, dynamic memory allocation, stack, heap, and memory virtualization techniques like base register and segmentation.
Introduces the Applied Data Analysis course at EPFL, covering a broad range of data analysis topics and emphasizing continuous learning in data science.
Covers data science tools, Hadoop, Spark, data lake ecosystems, CAP theorem, batch vs. stream processing, HDFS, Hive, Parquet, ORC, and MapReduce architecture.