Help us shape the future of .NET for Apache Spark

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* 1. Which of the following best describes your role?

Hobbyist

Developer (Develops end user applications, some of which require access to curated data)

Data Engineer (Develops data processing pipelines and scripts to prepare and curate data from a variety of sources)

Business Analyst (Develops reports and runs queries on curated data)

Data scientist (Build custom ML Models for a given data set and business problem)

Academic Researcher

Other (please specify)

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* 2. How would you describe your company?

Large-sized company (> 1000 employees)

None of the above (e.g. I am a student or hobbyist)

Freelancer, consultant, self-employed

Start-up

Small-sized company (< 100 employees)

Medium-sized company (100 - 1000 employees)

Other (please specify)

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* 3. What language do you use for your application development?

Scala

Node

Swift

JavaScript

Java

Python

C++

SQL

.NET

PHP

Julia

Other (please specify)

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* 4. What kind of apps are you building?

Mobile

Games

Internet of Things

Web

Cloud

None

Desktop

Other (please specify)

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* 5. How would you describe your current usage of Big Data and Apache Spark?

Actively developing and leveraging Big Data solutions

Recently started developing Big Data solution (<6 months ago)

Interested in learning about Big Data but have not actively developed any solutions

Not interested in Big Data

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What tools do you use for building your Big Data and Apache Spark jobs?

Data management tools (Azure Data Catalog, Waterline Data, Informatica, Apache Atlas etc.)

Jupyter Notebooks or REPL environments

ML tools (e.g. Azure ML, RapidMiner, Data Robot, Dataiku, H20.ai)

Integrated Development Environments (e.g. IntelliJ, Visual Studio, XCode, Spyder etc.)

Data Wrangling tools (e.g. Paxata, Trifacta)

Data Ingestion Tools (Azure Data Factory, StreamSets, Talend, Oozie etc.)

Code Editors (e.g. Visual Studio Code, Sublime, Notepad, Vim etc.)

SQL Editor (e.g. RedGate, JetBrains DataGrip, Azure DataStudio)

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Which frameworks, libraries and cloud services have you used for Big Data?

AI Batch

Apache Hive

Azure EventHub (Kafka)

None -- I have not used Big Data

Presto

DataBricks

Cloudera / Hortonworks

Google Dataproc, BigQuery etc.

Apache Kafka

MongoDB

Azure HDInsight

Azure Data Lake

Azure Stream Analytics

Amazon EMR etc.

Apache Spark

Microsoft Prose SDK

Azure Time Series Insights

Apache Hadoop

Other (please specify)

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* 8. How best would you explain the use of Big Data in your organization (e.g. Data Warehousing, Real Time/Streaming solutions, Log Processing etc.)

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* 9. Have you had a chance to play with .NET for Apache Spark? If so, how was your experience?

Yes

If Yes, please explain