Note that there are separate sets of assignments for CS 451/651 and CS 431/631. Make sure you work on the correct asssignments!

CS 431/631 Assignments

Assignment 2 due 2:30pm February 13

This assignment requires you to compute statistics over tokens in the text of Shakespeare's plays, as you did for Assignment 1. However, instead of performing the analysis purely in Python, you will use Spark (with a Python driver program).

For this assignment, you should continue to use the Waterloo CS Jupyter hub. Use your password for the CS student computing environment.

You will need to upload the following files to your working folder on the hub:

• Shakespeare.txt: the complete text of Shakespeare's plays
• simple_tokenize.py: a simple Python module for tokenizing text
• A2.ipynb: this is the starter notebook for A2.

As usual, open the starter notebook on the hub to get started working on the assignment.

Submitting Assignment 2

When you have finished, submit A2 using the same procedure you used for A1:

1. Download your A2.ipynb file from the Jupyter hub to your computer.
2. Submit your A2.ipynb file to your GitHub repository using the web interface like you did in assignment 1.

That's it! Note that your A2.ipynb should be committed and pushed to origin before the deadline.

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