PySpark debugging pt. 2 — 1. Invalid log directory Error: invalid log directory /usr/local/spark/work/app- 20201203195256-0001/2/ This can be a bit tricky, check your firewall rules and make sure all of your nodes have access to the storage being used. So, master sees workers and vice versa.

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Thank you for your kind words! And thank you so much for sharing such an amazing project! Watching... :)

Very happy to know the article and code were useful to you. Of course you can use the code, thanks for asking!

Great reasoning, just a small question about the other allowed characters like `-`, `?`, `_`, `%`, `=` ? Also, would you do anything differently if there was a requirement to include urls in other languages

First of all, I really enjoyed your thorough analysis, excellent article, thanks! For the highlighted part, I of course agree about the NoSQL case, but the `no relationship` part is not exactly true, right? I mean there is the UserID that links the two tables, it is just going to be handled differently.

Time to check your spark clusters — It is well known — or should be — that spark is not secured by default. It is right there in the docs Security in Spark is OFF by default So you should be well aware that you’ll need to put the effort to secure your cluster. And there are…

Research and awareness needed TL;DR It seems that more and more people are agreeing that G6PDd can be a risk factor for COVID-19, not only in terms of the medication that is used to combat the virus, but regarding one’s susceptibility to the virus and the severity of its side-effects…

Lessons learned — So, after a few runs with the PySpark ml implementation of Isolation Forest presented here, I stumbled upon a couple of things and I thought I’d write about them so that you don’t waste the time I wasted troubleshooting. Only Dense Vectors In the previous article, I used VectorAssembler to gather the feature…