Welcome to the Quantexa Academy Topic

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Welcome to the Quantexa Academy Topic

Please note: the Quantexa Academy is exclusively available to Quantexa’s partners and customers. Please see Introduction to the Quantexa Academy for more information.

Academy

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FAQ: I tried to run a spark shell script and got a "Permission denied" error message
FAQ relevant for: all Academy versions If you try to run one of your scripts on your Academy VDI and encounter an error saying Permission denied then there is an easy fix for this. Firstly, you need to open up the Dolphin file explorer and locate the script - this can be done easily in IntelliJ by right clicking on the…
Licence Update for the training VDIs
Hey all! This is just to say that new Quantexa Licences have been issued for your training VDIs, so you can now go ahead and update your licence and you should see the warning banner along the top of the Quantexa UI disappear after you have done this! Note: if you are doing the BA Academy then there is a small issue with…
FAQ: I'm trying to run a script and seeing an error about "Unrecognized option: -s"
FAQ relevant for: all Academy versions If you are trying to run a Scala script (e.g. ImportRawToParqet) and you see the above mentioned error, the main cause of this is that the program can't find the relevant JAR file to run. You may also get an error saying something like "<jar name>.jar not found" or "jar <jar name>…
FAQ: I'm missing data in Elasticsearch / my number of docs are wrong
FAQ relevant for: all Academy versions If you have completed the ETL pipeline stages of your project and uploaded the data to ElasticSearch, then when checking your indices in the ElasticSearch Head plugin on Chrome you should have numbers similar to the picture below (to get a bigger version of the image, right click it…
FAQ: I tried to start my UI but some of the apps didn't start up / I got a UI error
FAQ relevant for: all Academy versions If your apps haven't started after executing the ./run-all.sh script and waiting for a few minutes, the first thing to do would be to identify which of the apps didn't start. This can be done by executing the ./check-all.sh script** which should give you an indication as to if one of…
New Blog: Using Gradle Effectively.
Hey all, this is just to say that there is a new article up in the Community Library about how to most effectively use Gradle, particularly when doing your Academy Tasks. Please click here to go to the page and have a read! Below is a highly condensed summary of the key take-home messages of the article: "TL;DR: We use…
FAQ: I can't access a website or course
If you're having access issues, for example you can't access the Quantexa Docs site or Learn Upon (or course on LearnUpon), then please email training@quantexa.com detailing the issue and someone will get back to you!
Feedback & Suggestions for Academy
Did you know you can share ideas on the Quantexa Academy on the Community Ideas Portal? We'd love to hear from you if you have any suggestions about how we could improve the Quantexa Academy! Had an idea about something that we could be doing better? Have a request for material on a new topic? Seen an issue or a bug with…
Quantexa User Foundations: Introduction
We recommend you start your Quantexa journey with the User Foundations module. Having completed this module, you will be able to: Understand the concept of a Network. Understand the concept of a Document and describe how it is structured. Be able to provide examples of Document Types and understand how they can be…