You can join the workshop with Zoom meeting link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdu6upzsiHtFUxyikV0hv8-LsvmeG-1u5

Schedule: (Please make sure to leave time before the start of the workshop for registration)

6:00 - 6:30 Open Registration

6:30 - 7:00 Introduction to Big Data

6:30 - 7:30 Introduction to Spark

7:30 - 8:30 Hands-on Spark with Databricks

Welcome to the 3rd data engineering talk! In the first workshop we discussed the role of a data engineer, job market, and preparation for career switching. In the following event our panelists discussed data engineering trends. In this event, our workshop speaker Shaohua will give you an introduction to the big data ecosystem and teach you how to get started with Spark on Databricks.

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Workshop details

- Introduction to the big data landscape

- Apache Spark Introduction

- Getting started with Spark on Databricks

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Speaker: Shaohua Zhang

Shaohua Zhang is a practitioner and thought leader in applied data science and big data technologies. He has over 11 years of experience in applied data science and has built a strong reputation for constructing high-performance data scientist teams in the past. Shaohua is currently the co-founder and CEO of WeCloudData, Canada's leading Data Science Education Accelerator, where he works on bringing more Data Science and AI talents to the Canadian job market.

Prior to co-founding WeCloudData, Shaohua worked as a senior data scientist at Kik Interactive and also helped build a high-performance data science team at BlackBerry that focused on building innovative data science solutions for marketing, CRM, and product teams. He is specialized in user interest graph modeling, targeted advertising, scalable location intelligence, and large-scale recommendation engines for mobile personalization.

He has also collaborated with Ryerson’s Data Science Lab on several big data research projects and helped develop the big data course at Ryerson University in 2015, where he trained over 150 professionals on big data technologies. He is a Data Growth Coach at Communitech and the lead facilitator of the Communitech Academy Data Science Fundamentals Bootcamp.

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Are you interested in a career in data engineering?

WeCloudData is launching Canada’s first Data Engineering Diploma Program (part-time) in Feb, 2021. Its hands-on learning approach will help you make an easy switch to the data engineer job you like. Learn, practice, and work on real-life projects that help get hired!. Find more details at https://weclouddata.com/courses/applied-data-engineering/