BP
Nov 28, 2019
Excellent overview of Spark, including exercises that solidify what you learn during the lectures. The development environment setup tutorials were also very helpful, as I had not yet worked with sbt.
CC
Jun 7, 2017
The sessions where clearly explained and focused. Some of the exercises contained slightly confusing hints and information, but I'm sure those mistakes will be ironed out in future iterations. Thanks!
By Bennie K
•Oct 15, 2017
Really clear and direct. Would love to see another course on the Advanced Spark topics such as Spark Streaming and Spark custom libraries
By Arman S
•Sep 20, 2020
The professor and her team has done a tremendous job in this course. A very hearty thank you to all of you. Please keep up the good work!
By Álvaro L L
•Jun 11, 2017
A great introduction to Spark !!! An esential course to anyone interested in the field! Thank you very much Heather and the EPFL team !!
By YACINE G
•Dec 23, 2018
FANTASTIC!!! I don't even know which was better: the course material quality, the instructor's approach or the assignments. FANTASTIC!!!
By Buddhika L
•Feb 17, 2018
This is a good course if you already know the Scala language and looking to improve your theoretical understanding of Spark programming.
By Neha B
•May 19, 2017
It gave me very good understanding on Spark Architecture, functioning along with hands on over Scala. Good examples used during lessons.
By Oleg m
•Apr 10, 2017
First weeks were overcomplicated with k-means and stuff not related to Spark itself.
In general - GREAT JOB !!! Thx for such kind courses
By CLAUDIO A
•Jun 9, 2019
Excellent explanations by Heather Miller. She really knows how to explain a topic, and also makes the lectures a lot of fun to listen !
By Alvin H
•Apr 4, 2017
Awesome Course . Detail and Depth of RDD vs Dataframe vs Dataset.
Latency vs Network/IO vs Shuffling.
Learnt a lot .
Thank you Heather.
By Samuel L
•Mar 23, 2017
Very well taught and insightful! Especially the combination of slides, and additionally drawn notes on that slides, I found very good.
By Zhenduo D
•Nov 19, 2017
Interesting and useful course. Could be better if the videos were not as blurred, which made it sometimes hard to read the slides.
By Venkatarao A
•Jun 1, 2017
Awesome video lectures by the instructor. The content is very good and i fee i gained good knowledge. I really loved the series.
By Iris M
•Dec 20, 2020
Great lesson, the instructor is doing a great job explaining all concepts and using intuitive examples when needed. Thank you!
By Lewis M
•Mar 29, 2017
It was short and sweet. However, I wish the assignments had more unit tests to fill gaps where the instructions weren't clear.
By Imre K
•Mar 22, 2017
Challenging but very enlightening. Requires you to read the docs and figure out a lot of stuff on your own. My kind of course!
By Jonathan R
•Aug 22, 2020
Instructor does a great job of explaining the material and keeping students' interest. Good explanations and use of examples.
By Prachi C
•Sep 14, 2017
An excellent explanation of basic concepts of Spark using Scala. We covered the most important topics and ready to deep dive!
By Vlad B
•Apr 8, 2017
Very good and interesting videos. Really clear explanations. Practice part worse, but Forum helps with all misunderstandings.
By Max Z
•Mar 3, 2018
Excellent. I learned a lot from this course, even though I did not know much about scala. Strongly recommended this course
By VincentWMChan
•Apr 25, 2017
Pretty nice course. But with one comment on the grading system, sometime the comment & message is not that intuitive enough.
By Thierry M
•Feb 1, 2018
Very complet and accurate about Spark with Scala. Maybe an assignement with MongoDB or the like would be a plus
Thank you
By Aleksander S
•May 5, 2017
Amazing lectures, and challenging tasks to do on the way. I really enjoyed going through the course, and I learned a lot.
By Ubaldo P
•Apr 10, 2017
It is a course well organized, full of useful notions e with good assignments to assess your progress in learning stuff.
By Marazzi F
•Dec 31, 2020
I loved this course! One of my preferred courses so far. Very engaging and greatly explained! 5 stars totally deserved.
By manuel B L
•Jul 21, 2018
Muy bueno, Excelente. Todos los conocimientos obtenidos me serán de mucha ayuda en mi camino hacia el mundo de Big Data