Useful for getting SparkMagic to run w/ Jupyter. And the images do not seem to load for me either, still good how-to tech article for Jupyter. ... View more

This worked for me, thanks. ... View more

Agree that Python is likely the easiest, and that with a Java background could pick up Scala quickly. Having a Java background, should be straightforward with more verbose coding to use the Java API. To get the basic concepts down of data-parallelism, Python seemed really fast to implement the ideas in Spark, although for performance issues, believe RDDs are slower in Python than Scala or Java, and Dataframes are only slightly slower in Python than the other two programming options. ... View more