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Why Scala is better than Python
Welcome back! As some of you may know, Scala is a fairly popular language inside of the Data Science community and so is Python, so let’s discuss a few reasons why Scala might be a better language to use than Python! First off, learning either one of these is extremely important, I wouldn’t just learn one or the other, rather both. Now, if you plan on using Apache Spark, you can use either language (Python or Scala) but since Spark is developed with Scala, it may make more sense to use that rather than Python, which brings me to my first point:
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Performance & Apache Spark
This by far is the main reason I would recommend using a language like Scala over Python, Apache Spark development. Now, Apache Spark is an engine for large scale data processing, it’s a…
