Added snippets for configuring Spark applications.

spark/spark.ipynb

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       "* Working with Partitions\n",
       "* Caching RDDs\n",
       "* Checkpointing RDDs\n",
-      "* Writing and Running a Spark Application"
+      "* Writing and Running a Spark Application\n",
+      "* Configuring Spark Applications"
      ]
     },
     {
@@ -718,6 +719,103 @@
      "language": "python",
      "metadata": {},
      "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "## Configuring Spark Applications"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "Run a Spark app and set the configuration options in the command line:"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": [
+      "!spark-submit --master spark//localhost:7077 --name 'App Name' script.py data/*"
+     ],
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "Configure spark.conf:"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": [
+      "spark.app.name  App Name\n",
+      "spark.ui.port   4141\n",
+      "spark.master    spark://localhost:7077"
+     ],
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "Run a Spark app and set the configuration options through spark.conf:"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": [
+      "!spark-submit --properties-file spark.conf script.py data/*"
+     ],
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "Set the config options programmatically:"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": [
+      "sconf = SparkConf() \\\n",
+      "    .setAppName(\"Word Count\") \\\n",
+      "    .set(\"spark.ui.port\",\"4141\")\n",
+      "sc = SparkContext(conf=sconf)"
+     ],
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "Set logging levels located in the following file, or place a copy in your pwd:"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": [
+      "$SPARK_HOME/conf/log4j.properties.template"
+     ],
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": []
     }
    ],
    "metadata": {}