Hands-On Big Data Analytics with PySpark

Colibri Digital is a technology consultancy company founded in 2015 by James Cross and Ingrid Funie. The company works to help its clients navigate the rapidly changing and complex world of emerging technologies, with deep expertise in areas such as big data, data science, machine learning, and cloud computing. Over the past few years, they have worked with some of the world’s largest and most prestigious companies, including a tier 1 investment bank, a leading management consultancy group, and one of the world’s most popular soft drinks companies, helping each of them to better make sense of their data, and process it in more intelligent ways. The company lives by its motto: Data -> Intelligence ->Action. Rudy Lai is the founder of QuantCopy, a sales acceleration start-up using AI to write sales emails to prospective customers. Prior to founding QuantCopy, Rudy ran HighDimension.IO, a machine learning consultancy, where he experienced first hand the frustrations of outbound sales and prospecting. Rudy has also spent more than 5 years in quantitative trading at leading investment banks such as Morgan Stanley. This valuable experience allowed him to witness the power of data, but also the pitfalls of automation using data science and machine learning. He holds a computer science degree from Imperial College London, where he was part of the Dean’s list, and received awards including the Deutsche Bank Artificial Intelligence prize. Bartłomiej Potaczek is a software engineer working for Schibsted Tech Polska and programming mostly in JavaScript. He is a big fan of everything related to the react world, functional programming, and data visualization. He founded and created InitLearn, a portal that allows users to learn to program in a pair-programming fashion. He was also involved in InitLearn frontend, which is built on the React-Redux technologies. Besides programming, he enjoys football and crossfit. Currently, he is working on rewriting the frontend for tv.nu—Sweden’s most complete TV guide, with over 200 channels. He has also recently worked on technologies including React, React Router, and Redux.