Getting Started with Spark in Python

Another useful piece about the technical aspects of working with Big Data analytics.    " ... Although far from a complete introduction to Spark, we hope that you have a better feel for what Spark is, and how to conduct fast, in-memory distributed computing with Python. At the very least, you should be able to get Spark up and running and start exploring data either on your local machine in stand alone mode or via Amazon EC2. You should even be able to get iPython notebook set up and configured to run Spark! ... " .  Again, this is a technical intro, look for more resources if you don't work with Python already.