Google recently launched a preview of Colaboratory, a new service that lets you edit and run IPython notebooks right from Google Drive – free! It’s similar to Databricks – give that a try if you’re looking for a better-supported way to run Spark in the cloud, launch clusters, and much more.
Google has published some tutorials showing how to use Tensorflow and various other Google APIs and tools on Colaboratory, but I wanted to try installing Apache Spark. It turned out to be much easier than I expected. Download the notebook and import it into Colaboratory or read on…