Semi-regular field notes from the world of data: Apache Spark development community: Josh Rosen of Databricks recently built a tool for browsing pull requests. I like that it lets you scan each of the major components (Spark SQL, Streaming, MLlib, etc.). Now that Spark has become one of the most active open source projects inContinue reading “Bits from the Data Store”
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Big Data systems are making a difference in the fight against cancer
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog and Forbes.] As open source, big data tools enter the early stages of maturation, data engineers and data scientists will have many opportunities to use them to “work on stuff that matters”. Along those lines, computational biology and medicine are areas where skilled dataContinue reading “Big Data systems are making a difference in the fight against cancer”