You want to get hands-on with big data, machine learning, or analytics in the cloud, but let's face it: words like "cluster," "data lake," and "resource group" can make anyone's eyes glaze over.

# MAGIC You need access to an Azure Databricks Workspace. For the Pricing Tier, it should be of type Premium to have seamless integration with the Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse. # MAGIC Create a Cluster.

# MAGIC This notebook processes and performs quick analysis from the [New York Times COVID-19 dataset](https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data). The data is updated ...

In the last tip, I reviewed the syntax for numeric Spark SQL functions. This tip focuses on the available string functions. The sheer number of string functions in Spark SQL requires them to be broken ...