Tag: strata
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Time-turner: Strata NYC 2014, day 1
There are so many good talks happening at the same time that it’s impossible to not miss out on good sessions. But imagine I had a time-turner necklace and could actually “attend” 2 (maybe 3) sessions…
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Announcing Spark Certification
I’m happy to announce the Databricks/O’Reilly Developer Certification for Apache Spark! For more details, please read my post on the O’Reilly Radar.
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Streamlining Feature Engineering
Researchers and startups are building tools that enable feature discovery [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] Why do data scientists spend so much time on data wrangling and data preparation? In…
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A growing number of applications are being built with Spark
Many more companies are willing to talk about how they’re using Apache Spark in production [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] One of the trends we’re following closely at Strata is…
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Welcome to Intelligence Matters
Casting a critical eye on the exciting developments in the world of AI [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog and Forbes.] Editor’s note: this post was co-authored by Ben Lorica and…
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Network Science Dashboards
Networks graphs can be used as primary visual objects with conventional charts used to supply detailed views [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] With Network Science well on its way to…
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Verticalized Big Data solutions
General-purpose platforms can come across as hammers in search of nails [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog and Forbes.] As much as I love talking about general-purpose big data platforms and…
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Advanced Analytics on Relational Data with Spark SQL
I’ll be hosting a webcast on Spark SQL featuring Michael Armbrust of Databricks: In this webcast, we’ll examine Spark SQL, a new Alpha component that is part of the Apache Spark 1.0 release. Spark SQL lets…
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5 Fun Facts about HBase that you didn’t know
HBase has made inroads in companies across many industries and countries [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] With HBaseCon right around the corner, I wanted to take stock of one of…
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Crowdsourcing Feature discovery
More than algorithms, companies gain access to models that incorporate ideas generated by teams of data scientists [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog and Forbes.] Data scientists were among the earliest…