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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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