An introduction to zeppelin

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Apache Zeppelin

• What is Zeppelin ?
• How does it work
• How can it be used
• Available interpreters
• Major uses ?
• See zeppelin.incubator.apache.org
• Books

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Zeppelin What is it ?

• Data visualisation
• Notebook based
• Aids collaboration
• Open sourced Apache 2 license
• Has many interpreters
• Many display options
• Is extensible

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Zeppelin How does it work ?

• Collaborative notebooks to access data
• Select interpreter to manipulate data
• i.e. Spark SQL
• Use visualisation options to present data
• Create reports and dashboards
• Share dashboards to the web / customers

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Zeppelin How can it be used ?

• Select data from the file system / HDFS
• Use Spark NoSQL connector
• Collaborate, share notebook session
• Use Markdown for session comments
• Filter data via interpreters i.e Scala , SQL
• Visualise data with graphs, reports, dashboards
• Share results

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Zeppelin Interpreters

• Cassandra
• Elasticsearch
• Flink
• Geode
• Hive
• Ignite
• Lens
• Markdown
• Postgresql, Hawq
• Scalding

• Shell
• Spark
• Tajo
• Build your own !

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Zeppelin Major uses ?

• Who are the major users ?
• Databricks
• Big data stack developers
• Hortonworks
• Data investigation, discovery and sharing
• Extensible
• Add your own interpreters
• Add your own graphs

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Zeppelin Example - SQL with variable shows pie
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Zeppelin Example - SQL with variable shows bar
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Available Books

• See Big Data Made Easy
• Apress / Springer Jan 2015
• See Mastering Apache Spark
• Packt Oct 2015

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