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Download spark from http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html
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Extract file contents to a directory. E.g., /usr/local/
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Modify bash profile:
export SPARK_PATH=/usr/local/spark-X-X-X-bin-hadoop2.7
alias pyspark="$SPARK_PATH/bin/pyspark --master local[4]"
alias snotebook="PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON='jupyter' PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON_OPTS='notebook' pyspark"