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Questions tagged [dsx]
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How to install Azure module in IBM Data Science Experience
I'm trying to import Azure data into DSx. I get an error when I try to import the module. When I use the command "from azure.storage.blob import BlobService" in DSx, it tells me that there's no module with that name. Do I have to do some further…

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Job schedule entry could not be created. Status code: 500
I have received the following error when trying to save a DSX Scheduled Job:
Job schedule entry could not be created. Status code: 500
Screenshot of the error message:
I've tried about six times over the last few hours and have consistently…

Chris Snow
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How to install the Brunel package in a R notebook on Spark 2.0
I am trying to install the Brunel viz package in a R notebook on #DSX on SPARK 2.0 cluster. It should be possible to install this pacakge however I dont know how. Any help is appreciated
thanks

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how to log to the kernel-pyspark-*.log from a scheduled notebook?
In my notebook, I have setup a utility for logging so that I can debug DSX scheduled notebooks:
# utility method for logging
log4jLogger = sc._jvm.org.apache.log4j
LOGGER = log4jLogger.LogManager.getLogger("CloudantRecommender")
def info(*args):
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install.packages("tm") -> "dependency 'slam' is not available"
I'm trying to install the tm package on IBM's Data Science Experience (DSX):
install.packages("tm")
However, I'm hitting this issue:
"dependency 'slam' is not available"
This post suggests that R version 3.3.1 will resolve the issue, however the R…

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How to connect to Message Hub from Data Science Experience / Spark as a Service using confluent-kafka-python?
The Bluemix MessageHub docs point python users to the confluent kafka library:
So I tried to install:
!pip install --user confluent-kafka
However, I've hit this error:
Collecting confluent-kafka
Using cached…

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Are notebooks accessible on the spark as a service file system?
I would like to investigate if it is possible to use the git command line client using a %%sh cell so that I can work directly with project resources such as scripts and notebooks using a git client. E.g.
%%sh
git clone ... myproj
Are the dsx…

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