Scala Essential Training for Data Science

- Hi, I'm Dan Sullivan, and in this course, I'll be describing how to use Scala for data science. We'll start by reviewing the basics of Scala data types and expressions. We'll cover how to use collections like arrays, sets, and maps. And we'll discuss the advantages of Scala's functional programming features for working with collections and analyzing data. We'll also use parallel collections which allow us to easily implement parallel processing and take advantage of multicore processors.

Next, we'll review the basics of using JDBC drivers and SQL queries to work with relational databases. We'll also explore how to use Scala with Spark, a popular distributed processing system widely used for big data analytics and data science. So let's start learning how to use Scala for data science.