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assign9.md

 ## Assignment 9: Spark
 ### Due Dec 8, 2023, 11:59PM
 
-Assignment 8 focuses on using Apache Spark for doing large-scale data analysis
+Assignment 9 focuses on using Apache Spark for doing large-scale data analysis
 tasks. For this assignment, we will use relatively small datasets and we won't
 run anything in distributed mode; however Spark can be easily used to run the
 same programs on much larger datasets.
 
+### Setup
+
+Download files for Assignment 9 <a href="https://ceres.cs.umd.edu/424/assign/assignment9Dist.tgz?1">here</a>.
+*We do not provide a new Vagrant file as you can use your existing VM's with this project, or just natively on Macs.*
+
 ## Getting Started with Spark
 
 This guide is basically a summary of the excellent tutorials that can be found