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Seeing as you're heavily using Spark, have you had a look at Apache Zeppelin (site: https://zeppelin.apache.org https://zeppelin.apache.org, demo: https://www.y

Seeing as you're heavily using Spark, have you had a look at Apache Zeppelin (site: https://zeppelin.apache.org https://zeppelin.apache.org, demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Ei1RMG5Xo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Ei1RMG5Xo)? Seems like a more powerful notebook approach, plus better architecture for using embedded d3.js viz. Also painless templated SQL -> published dashboard looks great for getting data visible early on.

nl 10y ago
Yes. Not really a fan. It looks nice, but the installation experience is (was?) terrible (as in - didn't work at all). Note the long gap between the 0.5.6 release (January) and the 0.6.0 release (July)? There were 3 (4?) Spark releases in that time, and that meant that none of the out-of-the-box released worked for anything except the version of Spark you downloaded with it (and from memory that had problems too) I got it working and evaluated it in some depth. I'm from a Java background, so I really wanted to like it. But it turns out that all those features that seem really nice are mostly only nice if you are trying to build applications, not notebooks. Maybe it has improved, and maybe for some usecases it makes sense.
- seoul_engineer 10y ago
  One of the Apache Zeppelin committers here. Thanks for honest feedback (although it sounds bitter) - we are working hard on improving situation with release schedule indeed. If there is any chance you could elaborate on installation experience though a JIRA issue [1] - that would be very much appreciated. 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN