<Analytics> Starting Spark Session in Azure Synapse Analytics
Sunday, Mar 30, 2025
I was doing a project helping an environmental organization find ways to better store and utilize their geospatial data(mostly .shp files and point clouds).
As a solution we recommended moving their data from Dropbox to Azure (Blob Storage) for more flexible storage management and options to analyze data.
To give a proof-of-concept about the benefits of using cloud storage, I made a geospatial analytics prototype using Azure Synapse Analytics.
1. Creating Synapse Analytics Workspace To use Synapse Analytics, we have to create a workspace to use our data.