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Big-data company Databricks Inc. today updated its MLflow machine learning toolkit with support for the R programming language and other new features aimed at boosting its utility. Databricks had ...

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This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; ...