This document describes a proposal for a three month continuous learning program on Apache Spark. The program includes technical workshops, bi-weekly webinars, social learning on a moderated platform with Spark experts, and hackathon events called "Spark-a-Thons". It is designed to help organizations upskill their employees on Spark through hands-on training and peer-learning support from certified instructors.

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February 2017
High Performance Continuous Learning
Technical Hands-On Workshop
Social Learning with Spark SMEs
Bi-Weekly Interactive Webinars
Spark-a-Thons
1000 page documentation and videos
Barranquilla
Belo Horizonte
Bogotá
Brasilia
Cali - Colombia
Lima
Medellin
Panama, Panama
Rio De Janeiro
Santiago
São Paulo
US Hispanic community
Apache Spark 2.0
For High-Throughput, Clustered, Stream
Processing Applications
EXPERIENCED TRAINERS
Jacek
Laskowski
• 30+ Spark classes
• Spark code
contributor
• Author of:
Mastering Spark
Prof. G.
Mascarella
• Certified Data
Scientist
• Former MSFT
Consulting(16yrs)
• Teaching ML at FAU
• PASS & IASA Panelist
Contact: giuseppe@valueamplify.com
Adtl trainers available
Rob
Grandi
• Spark on Big data
Engineer
• Dev Ops Hadoop
• Scala Programming

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Technical Hands-on Workshop
Designed by Apache Spark code contributors with plenty of training delivery
experience (i.e. we are training top software companies WW),.
Here you have 2 videos sample about our style in different context:
-Spark introduction session
-Spark Scala Coding Session
Our 4 days hands-on workshop is based on this structure and we customize it
base don an pre-workshop assessment.
1. Spark Ecosystem
2. Spark Core
RDD Data Abstraction,
DataFrame, Dataset, Streaming.
3. Monitoring Spark Applications
web UI, SparkListeners and log
analysis,
4. Spark Setup
5. Spark and cluster managers –
Hadoop YARN, Apache Mesos and
Spark Standalone.
1. Distributed Machine Learning
Algorithms
2. Spark MLlib
ML in Distributed Computing
3. Build a ML experiment
Use Transformers from JSON,
Logistic Regressions, and
Evaluators.
1. Spark Streaming API
2. Distributed Data Ingestions
3. Structured streaming.
1. SCALA Applications
2. Spark SQL Applications using
DataFrames
3. Working with Structured
Datasets (i.e. JSON)
4. Using Dataset API

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What is included?
1. Program Design, Launch and Operation: Certified Yammer Moderator and KIT for 3 months
2. Propel Vitality: Spark, Hadoop Level 400 SMEs consumed, Effort depends metrics i.e. # of posts with
interactions.
Social Learning with Spark SMEs
Prof Mascarella has successfully managed several Social Learning
projects in Microsoft and in Academic settings since 2001.
Continuous learning through well planned webinars and follow-
up in moderated communities will enable students to self assess
their learning barriers and secure proper access to Level 200-
300-400 hands-on classes or “deep-dive” webinars.
Social Learning activates peer-learning, incentive self-driven
exploration of solutions and makes experts easy to engage.
Certified Yammer Moderator Will Lead Spark Upskill Roadmap
What is Consulting and Not
Social Learning?
Yammer questions and
answers are training
activities not consulting
work.
Any SMEs work that requites
the following activities is
considering consulting by
the hour:
- Expect a problem
resolution not an
advice
- Study the contexts of
the problem
- Review more than 10
lines of code

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Step Description
1.Crowdsource
Challenges
When professionals sees
opportunities/Challenges they can raise
attention with# or Yammer group for due
diligence and nomination to a Spark-a-Thon.
2.Prioritizate
and Set
Rewards
Moderator will help organization build
scorecard, success criteria and will facilitate
consensus around those topics.
The use of reward, badges (brian-candies) and
prizes will be orchestrated for maximum
efficacy.
3. Packaging
Spark-a-Thon
Moderator will prepare the kit for the event
-Scenario Description
-Source data cleanup
-Minimum Requirement:
-Manage competition success and energy
- Orchestrate submission review
- Engineering and doument best submission
for re-use
4. SMESs
Supporting
Event
If the solution/challenge ha snot been solved,
adding external SMEs (Subject Matter Experts)
would propel excellence, etc and
troubleshoot.
5. The
Winner is a
Leader
During the event leaders will emerge, they will
be appointed as SMEs in the Yamemr
community to filter future situations.
Leaders in the Yammer community will be
coached to inspire and propel the
organization.
Spark-a-Thon To Find Business Opportunties and Leaders
In the Open Source world hackathons are the successful learning mechanisms.
-How can a corporation embrace this phenomenon in respect of confidentiality?
-How can we scale?
Value Amplify Spark-a-Thon will focus or real solution scenarios, leverage web
conferencing when needed and have teams in multiple offices compete for prizes,
badges and awards based on gamifications techniques.
Our associates have conducted over 20 hackathons

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1000 page documentation and videos
Example of documentation written by our associates:

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Three Month Program Proposal
Here you find a description of services for a potential engagement .
Certified Administrators
Related Projects Expertise from our SMEs:
Sports Data Analysis using Spark, Co-occurrence Networks Analysis (with GraphX), Anomaly
Detection, Data Clustering and Classification, Dimensionality Reduction, Finanancial Risk Analysis,
Map Reduce Migration, Recommendation Engine, Data Streaming, Semantics Analytics,
eCommerce Real-time Customer Segmentation, Machine Learning Spam Filtering,
Graph Network for AML and Fraud.

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Appendix
How many Spark SMEs can you offer in the social learning
program?
We have 6 on board and at least 12 in our part-time network.
How long would you recommend to run this program?
After the first 3 months, the program should become self-
sustainable with your employees and leader.
Will this program work only for Apache Spark?
This program will work for any technology. New technology areas
can be introduced in the same program or you can start another
program with the same system.
FAQ
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