diff --git a/edx/analytics/tasks/common/spark.py b/edx/analytics/tasks/common/spark.py
index df645eb8dd..640c1b6aff 100644
--- a/edx/analytics/tasks/common/spark.py
+++ b/edx/analytics/tasks/common/spark.py
@@ -259,17 +259,9 @@ def get_event_log_dataframe(self, spark, *args, **kwargs):
         schema = self.get_log_schema()
         if self.direct_eventlogs_processing:
             self.log.warn("\nPYSPARK => Processing event log source directly\n")
-            event_log_source = self.get_config_from_args('event_log_source', *args, default_value=None)
-            if event_log_source is not None:
-                event_log_source = json.loads(event_log_source)
-            self.log.warn("\nPYSPARK => Event log source : {}\n".format(event_log_source))
-            dataframe = spark.read.format('json').load(event_log_source[0], schema=self.get_log_schema())
-            source_list_count = len(event_log_source)
-            if source_list_count > 1:
-                for k in range(1, source_list_count):
-                    dataframe = dataframe.union(
-                        spark.read.format('json').load(event_log_source[k], schema=self.get_log_schema())
-                    )
+            source = [src.encode('utf-8') for src in self.source]
+            self.log.warn("\nPYSPARK => Event log source : {}\n".format(source))
+            dataframe = spark.read.format('json').load(source, schema=self.get_log_schema())
         else:
             self.log.warn("\nPYSPARK => Processing path selection output\n")
             input_source = self.get_input_source(*args)
diff --git a/edx/analytics/tasks/insights/location_per_course.py b/edx/analytics/tasks/insights/location_per_course.py
index 2ad1241335..5f767256cf 100644
--- a/edx/analytics/tasks/insights/location_per_course.py
+++ b/edx/analytics/tasks/insights/location_per_course.py
@@ -216,12 +216,6 @@ def run(self):
                     target.remove()
         super(LastDailyIpAddressOfUserTaskSpark, self).run()
 
-    def get_luigi_configuration(self):
-        options = {}
-        config = luigi.configuration.get_config()
-        options['event_log_source'] = config.get('event-logs', 'source', '')
-        return options
-
     def spark_job(self, *args):
         from edx.analytics.tasks.util.spark_util import get_event_predicate_labels, get_course_id, get_event_time_string
         from pyspark.sql.functions import udf
@@ -246,7 +240,7 @@ def spark_job(self, *args):
                 WHERE rank = 1
                 """
         result = self._spark.sql(query)
-        result.coalesce(2).write.partitionBy('dt').csv(self.output_dir().path, mode='append', sep='\t')
+        result.coalesce(4).write.partitionBy('dt').csv(self.output_dir().path, mode='append', sep='\t')
 
 
 class LastCountryOfUserDownstreamMixin(