We continue the series of online meetups with focus on Google Cloud Technologies with a very special guest, Neeraj Bhadani who is Data Scientist at Expedia Group(Hotels.com), in London, United Kingdom

Title: Data Analysis using Apache Spark on GCP

Abstract:
Apache Spark is a General-purpose computing engine that has in-memory computing capabilities. It can be used for a variety of workloads like Batch processing, Iterative problems, stream processing, etc. It is designed to be highly scalable and provides various APIs like Scala, Python, R, Java, and SQL.

During this workshop, We will discuss Data Analysis using Apache Spark on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure. We will use various GCP services like DataProc, GCS etc.

Speaker Bio:
Neeraj Bhadani is a Data Scientist at Expedia Group. He has more than a decade of experience building software and is currently working in AI & Data Science team at Expedia Group. He has delivered various training and workshops both internally and externally. Prior to Expedia Group, he worked on various Big Data projects, dealt directly with clients as a Technical specialist, and migrated various ETL pipelines to Apache Spark.

You can find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neerajbhadani/