Paraphrasing Garrison Keillor, it's been a quiet week in the Apache Spark community - at least compared to last year, where the definitive Spark 2.0 was unveiled. Last week, Spark Summit pulled into ...

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As organizations create more diverse and more user-focused data products and services, there is a growing need for machine learning, which can be used to develop personalizations, recommendations, and ...

We called it Machine Learning October Fest. Last week saw the nearly synchronized breakout of a number of news centered around machine learning (ML): The release of PyTorch 1.0 beta from Facebook, ...

As I wrote in March of this year, the Databricks service is an excellent product for data scientists. It has a full assortment of ingestion, feature selection, model building, and evaluation functions ...

Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark data processing framework for Big Data analytics, published a new report indicating the technology is still ...

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Facebook, CERN, Sociétié Générale and Zalando join the speaker lineup with keynoter Katie Bouman, the developer of algorithms for imaging black holes SAN FRANCISCO & AMSTERDAM–(BUSINESS ...

This report focuses on how to tune a Spark application to run on a cluster of instances. We define the concepts for the cluster/Spark parameters, and explain how to configure them given a specific set ...

There is more to big data than Hadoop, but the trend is hard to imagine without it. Its distributed file system (HDFS) is helping businesses to store unstructured data in vast volumes at speed, on ...