Author: Frank Kane

Our courses are led by Frank Kane, a former Amazon and IMDb developer with extensive experience in machine learning and data science. With 26 issued patents and 9 years of experience at the forefront of recommendation systems, Frank brings real-world expertise to his teaching. His ability to explain complex concepts in accessible terms has helped over one million students worldwide gain valuable skills in machine learning, data engineering, and AI development.

AI is Shaking Things Up in 2019

Hi Folks,

Hope your New Year is off to a great start!

In 2019 AI is making big waves in business – many say that businesses that are late to the AI game may never be able to catch up…

AI algorithms that are used for finding workers may be resulting in lower pay. US spies are wanting to find a way to identify compromised AI, and new AI is enabling every tree in a city to be mapped out.

Get the rest of the latest news in AI, Data Science & Deep Learning below.

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Here are some highlights from the past couple of weeks:

US Spies Want to Know How to Identify Compromised AI

You see a turtle, your computer sees a rifle.

Machine Learning Deployed to Help EEOC Predict Discrimination

How Oil Traders Make Big Bucks by Using Satellite Surveillance

Every Tree in the City, Mapped

Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

A.I. as Talent Scout: Unorthodox Hires, and Maybe Lower Pay

This NYC Startup Brings a Dietitian Powered by AI to Your Phone

This NYC Startup Brings a Dietitian Powered by AI to Your Phone Just in Time for Your New Year’s Weight Loss Resolution

I hope you find these resources helpful. And as always thank you for having me along on your learning journey.

– Frank Kane

Our new course is about… making great courses!

Sundog Education recently celebrated two huge milestones – over 200,000 students have enrolled in our courses worldwide, bringing in over one million dollars in revenue. Never in our wildest dreams did we envision that kind of impact when we started in 2015.

To give back to the community, we’ve created a 4-hour course encapsulating everything we learned along the way on how to create successful online courses. We know this course won’t sell as well as our technology courses, but we want others to have the same opportunity we did to change the world in a measurable way.

Go check out the promo video and curriculum at Udemy. If you have knowledge to share with the world, it’s an opportunity you shouldn’t pass by!

Apache Spark Tutorial for Beginners Part 1 – Installing Spark

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest technology in the field of big data right now. It allows you to process and extract meaning from massive data sets on a cluster, whether it is a Hadoop cluster you administer or a cloud-based deployment.

In this series of 8 videos, we will walk through installing Spark on a Hortonworks sandbox running right on your own PC, and we will talk about how Spark works and its architecture. We will then dive hands-on into the origins of Spark by working directly with RDDs Resilient Distributed Datasets and then move on to the modern Spark 2.0 way of programming with Datasets.

You will get hands-on practice writing a few simple Spark applications using the Python programming language, and then we will actually build a movie recommendation engine using real movie ratings data, and Sparks machine learning library MLLib. We will end with an exercise you can try yourself for practice, along with my solution to it.

In this video, we will focus on getting VirtualBox, a Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) sandbox, and the MovieLens data set installed for use in the rest of the series. Your instructor is Frank Kane, who spent nine years at Amazon.com and IMDb.com as a senior engineer and senior manager, wrangling their massive data sets.

Explore the full course on Udemy

Apache Spark Tutorial for Beginners Part 2 – Introduction to Spark

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest technology in the field of big data right now. It allows you to process and extract meaning from massive data sets on a cluster, whether it is a Hadoop cluster you administer or a cloud-based deployment.

In this series of 8 videos, we will walk through installing Spark on a Hortonworks sandbox running right on your own PC, and we will talk about how Spark works and its architecture. We will then dive hands-on into the origins of Spark by working directly with RDDs Resilient Distributed Datasets and then move on to the modern Spark 2.0 way of programming with Datasets.

You will get hands-on practice writing a few simple Spark applications using the Python programming language, and then we will actually build a movie recommendation engine using real movie ratings data, and Sparks machine learning library MLLib. We will end with an exercise you can try yourself for practice, along with my solution to it.

In this video, we will focus on getting VirtualBox, a Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) sandbox, and the MovieLens data set installed for use in the rest of the series. Your instructor is Frank Kane, who spent nine years at Amazon.com and IMDb.com as a senior engineer and senior manager, wrangling their massive data sets.

Explore the full course on Udemy

Apache Spark Tutorial for Beginners Part 3 – Resilient Distributed Dataset

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest technology in the field of big data right now. It allows you to process and extract meaning from massive data sets on a cluster, whether it is a Hadoop cluster you administer or a cloud-based deployment.

In this series of 8 videos, we will walk through installing Spark on a Hortonworks sandbox running right on your own PC, and we will talk about how Spark works and its architecture. We will then dive hands-on into the origins of Spark by working directly with RDDs Resilient Distributed Datasets and then move on to the modern Spark 2.0 way of programming with Datasets.

You will get hands-on practice writing a few simple Spark applications using the Python programming language, and then we will actually build a movie recommendation engine using real movie ratings data, and Sparks machine learning library MLLib. We will end with an exercise you can try yourself for practice, along with my solution to it.

In this video, we will focus on getting VirtualBox, a Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) sandbox, and the MovieLens data set installed for use in the rest of the series. Your instructor is Frank Kane, who spent nine years at Amazon.com and IMDb.com as a senior engineer and senior manager, wrangling their massive data sets.

Explore the full course on Udemy

Apache Spark Tutorial for Beginners Part 4 – Using RDDs in Spark

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest technology in the field of big data right now. It allows you to process and extract meaning from massive data sets on a cluster, whether it is a Hadoop cluster you administer or a cloud-based deployment.

In this series of 8 videos, we will walk through installing Spark on a Hortonworks sandbox running right on your own PC, and we will talk about how Spark works and its architecture. We will then dive hands-on into the origins of Spark by working directly with RDDs Resilient Distributed Datasets and then move on to the modern Spark 2.0 way of programming with Datasets.

You will get hands-on practice writing a few simple Spark applications using the Python programming language, and then we will actually build a movie recommendation engine using real movie ratings data, and Sparks machine learning library MLLib. We will end with an exercise you can try yourself for practice, along with my solution to it.

In this video, we will focus on getting VirtualBox, a Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) sandbox, and the MovieLens data set installed for use in the rest of the series. Your instructor is Frank Kane, who spent nine years at Amazon.com and IMDb.com as a senior engineer and senior manager, wrangling their massive data sets.

Explore the full course on Udemy

Apache Spark Tutorial for Beginners Part 5 – Spark SQL

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest technology in the field of big data right now. It allows you to process and extract meaning from massive data sets on a cluster, whether it is a Hadoop cluster you administer or a cloud-based deployment.

In this series of 8 videos, we will walk through installing Spark on a Hortonworks sandbox running right on your own PC, and we will talk about how Spark works and its architecture. We will then dive hands-on into the origins of Spark by working directly with RDDs Resilient Distributed Datasets and then move on to the modern Spark 2.0 way of programming with Datasets.

You will get hands-on practice writing a few simple Spark applications using the Python programming language, and then we will actually build a movie recommendation engine using real movie ratings data, and Sparks machine learning library MLLib. We will end with an exercise you can try yourself for practice, along with my solution to it.

In this video, we will focus on getting VirtualBox, a Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) sandbox, and the MovieLens data set installed for use in the rest of the series. Your instructor is Frank Kane, who spent nine years at Amazon.com and IMDb.com as a senior engineer and senior manager, wrangling their massive data sets.

Explore the full course on Udemy

Apache Spark Tutorial for Beginners Part 6 – Using DataSets

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest technology in the field of big data right now. It allows you to process and extract meaning from massive data sets on a cluster, whether it is a Hadoop cluster you administer or a cloud-based deployment.

In this series of 8 videos, we will walk through installing Spark on a Hortonworks sandbox running right on your own PC, and we will talk about how Spark works and its architecture. We will then dive hands-on into the origins of Spark by working directly with RDDs Resilient Distributed Datasets and then move on to the modern Spark 2.0 way of programming with Datasets.

You will get hands-on practice writing a few simple Spark applications using the Python programming language, and then we will actually build a movie recommendation engine using real movie ratings data, and Sparks machine learning library MLLib. We will end with an exercise you can try yourself for practice, along with my solution to it.

In this video, we will focus on getting VirtualBox, a Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) sandbox, and the MovieLens data set installed for use in the rest of the series. Your instructor is Frank Kane, who spent nine years at Amazon.com and IMDb.com as a senior engineer and senior manager, wrangling their massive data sets.

Explore the full course on Udemy

Apache Spark Tutorial for Beginners Part 7 – Using MLLib

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest technology in the field of big data right now. It allows you to process and extract meaning from massive data sets on a cluster, whether it is a Hadoop cluster you administer or a cloud-based deployment.

In this series of 8 videos, we will walk through installing Spark on a Hortonworks sandbox running right on your own PC, and we will talk about how Spark works and its architecture. We will then dive hands-on into the origins of Spark by working directly with RDDs Resilient Distributed Datasets and then move on to the modern Spark 2.0 way of programming with Datasets.

You will get hands-on practice writing a few simple Spark applications using the Python programming language, and then we will actually build a movie recommendation engine using real movie ratings data, and Sparks machine learning library MLLib. We will end with an exercise you can try yourself for practice, along with my solution to it.

In this video, we will focus on getting VirtualBox, a Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) sandbox, and the MovieLens data set installed for use in the rest of the series. Your instructor is Frank Kane, who spent nine years at Amazon.com and IMDb.com as a senior engineer and senior manager, wrangling their massive data sets.

Explore the full course on Udemy

Apache Spark Tutorial for Beginners Part 8 – Project Solution

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest technology in the field of big data right now. It allows you to process and extract meaning from massive data sets on a cluster, whether it is a Hadoop cluster you administer or a cloud-based deployment.

In this series of 8 videos, we will walk through installing Spark on a Hortonworks sandbox running right on your own PC, and we will talk about how Spark works and its architecture. We will then dive hands-on into the origins of Spark by working directly with RDDs Resilient Distributed Datasets and then move on to the modern Spark 2.0 way of programming with Datasets.

You will get hands-on practice writing a few simple Spark applications using the Python programming language, and then we will actually build a movie recommendation engine using real movie ratings data, and Sparks machine learning library MLLib. We will end with an exercise you can try yourself for practice, along with my solution to it.

In this video, we will focus on getting VirtualBox, a Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) sandbox, and the MovieLens data set installed for use in the rest of the series. Your instructor is Frank Kane, who spent nine years at Amazon.com and IMDb.com as a senior engineer and senior manager, wrangling their massive data sets.

Explore the full course on Udemy