AWS Big Data Blog
Tag: Python
Build a semantic search engine for tabular columns with Transformers and Amazon OpenSearch Service
Finding similar columns in a data lake has important applications in data cleaning and annotation, schema matching, data discovery, and analytics across multiple data sources. The inability to accurately find and analyze data from disparate sources represents a potential efficiency killer for everyone from data scientists, medical researchers, academics, to financial and government analysts. Conventional […]
Simplify and optimize Python package management for AWS Glue PySpark jobs with AWS CodeArtifact
Data engineers use various Python packages to meet their data processing requirements while building data pipelines with AWS Glue PySpark Jobs. Languages like Python and Scala are commonly used in data pipeline development. Developers can take advantage of their open-source packages or even customize their own to make it easier and faster to perform use […]
Using Python 3.4 on EMR Spark Applications
Bruno Faria is a Big Data Support Engineer for Amazon Web Services Many data scientists choose Python when developing on Spark. With last month’s Amazon EMR release 4.6, we’ve made it even easier to use Python: Python 3.4 is installed on your EMR cluster by default. You’ll still find Python 2.6 and 2.7 on your […]
Introduction to Python UDFs in Amazon Redshift
Christopher Crosbie is a Healthcare and Life Science Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services When your doctor takes out a prescription pad at your yearly checkup, do you ever stop to wonder what goes into her thought process as she decides on which drug to scribble down? We assume that journals of scientific evidence coupled […]
Using IPython Notebook to Analyze Data with Amazon EMR
Manjeet Chayel is a Solutions Architect with AWS IPython Notebook is a web-based interactive environment that lets you combine code, code execution, mathematical functions, rich documentation, plots, and other elements into a single document. In the background, IPython Notebook stores this information as a JSON document. The main advantage of a notebook when compared to […]
Snakes in the Stream – Feeding and Eating Amazon Kinesis Streams with Python
Markus Schmidberger is a Senior Consultant for AWS Professional Services The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming increasingly popular, and it’s easy to see why: it generates new business value for your company by connecting all available machines and devices. The big challenge is real-time data processing and analysis. Cloud computing is an excellent way […]