
It has been a busy week in the world of big data with Gartner holing its Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit in London and Hortonworks team up with HPE for Apache Spark […]
It has been a busy week in the world of big data with Gartner holing its Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit in London and Hortonworks team up with HPE for Apache Spark […]
Google’s managed Hadoop- and Spark-as-a-Service offerings have gone to general availability. Rutgers University is offering a big data and data analytics remote learning certificate program. Alteryx is expanding its predictive analytics offerings. […]
What do Bloomberg, CapitalOne, and Comcast have in common? If you said they’re operationalizing data science using Apache Spark, then give yourself a gold star. These companies shared their stories of the […]
Databricks announced a free community edition of Spark along with free training materials. Apache Arrow became a project within the Apache Software Foundation. And SAP announced support for Spark in its Predictive […]
Google took the wraps off of its managed Apache Hadoop and Spark service this week, saying its cloud data processing platform is intended to reduce the cost and ease management of processing […]
Adoption interest in Spark has topped MapReduce, says a new survey. What’s supporting interest is the need for speed, boosting agility, and revenues. Apache Spark continues to attract attention in the big […]
If you’ve been using Apache Spark, then you know how awesome the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) is. This data structure is essential to Spark for both its speed and its reliability. There […]
Spark MLlib enhances machine learning because of its simplicity, scalability, and easy integration with other tools As organizations create more diverse and more user-focused data products and services, there is a growing […]
Apache Spark is among the Hadoop ecosystem technologies acting as catalysts for broader adoption of big data infrastructure. Now, Looker — a vendor of business intelligence software — has announced support for […]
In two of my previous articles, I introduced the audience to Apache Spark and Docker. The time has come that I showed you a fully functional application including both of the aforementioned […]