8. Conclusion

Congratulations!

In this tutorial, you have:

• Understood what Spark clusters are.
• Created a Spark cluster, utilising the same Conda environment as your notebook.
• Started a Spark context in a Python notebook.
• Started a Spark session in an R notebook.
• Performed Spark calculations in Python and R.
• Deleted the Spark cluster.

Where next?

You may want to consider these next steps:

• To learn more about Spark, visit https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/
• To learn more about Conda package management, visit Managing packages within Conda.