Quite often I want to share simple (static) web pages with other colleagues or clients. For example, I may have written a report using R Markdown and rendered it to HTML. AWS S3 can easily host such a simple web page (e.g. see here), but it cannot, however, offer …
Posted on Mon 29 August 2016 in data-science • Tagged with AWS, data-processing
Parts one, two and three of this series of posts have taken us from creating an account on AWS to loading and interacting with data in Spark via R and R Studio. My vision of a Data Science platform for R&D is nearly complete - the only outstanding component is …
Posted on Mon 22 August 2016 in data-science • Tagged with AWS, data-processing, apache-spark
Part 1 and Part 2 of this series dealt with setting up AWS, loading data into S3, deploying a Spark cluster and using it to access our data. In this part we will deploy R and R Studio Server to our Spark cluster’s master node and use it to …
Posted on Thu 18 August 2016 in data-science • Tagged with AWS, data-processing, apache-spark
Part 1 in this series of blog posts describes how to setup AWS with some basic security and then load data into S3. This post walks-through the process of setting up a Spark cluster on AWS and accessing our S3 data from within Spark.
A key part of my vision …
Posted on Tue 16 August 2016 in data-science • Tagged with AWS, data-processing
Here’s my vision: I get into the office and switch-on my laptop; then I start-up my Spark cluster; I interact with it via RStudio to exploring a new dataset a client uploaded overnight; after getting a handle on what I want to do with it, I prototype an ETL …