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100 Years of Horror Films: An Analysis Using Databricks SQL

When it comes to the history of film, perhaps no genre says more about us as humans than horror, which taps into our...
Company blog

Down to the Individual Grain: How John Deere Uses Industrial AI to Increase Crop Yields Through Precision Agriculture

July 9, 2021 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
Recently, The Verge spoke with Jahmy Hindman , CTO at John Deere, about the transformation of the company’s farm equipment over the last...
Company blog

Databricks Solutions Showcase

June 30, 2021 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
Inspiration doesn’t always come from our peers. Some of the best ideas come from innovators in other industries.This is especially true when it...
Platform blog

Jump Start Your Data Projects with Pre-Built Solution Accelerators

Deliver value faster. We hear this theme in nearly every executive discussion with customers. Data teams and data leaders need to deliver value...
Data AI

How to Secure Industrial IoT (And Why You Should Assume You Can't Prevent a Data Breach)

May 13, 2021 by Hector Leano in Data Strategy
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is already driving massive productivity gains in the Manufacturing and Energy & Utilities industries through decreased waste...
Company blog

Guide to Media & Entertainment Sessions at Data + AI Summit 2021

May 5, 2021 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
Data + AI Summit is the global event for the data community, where 100,000 practitioners, leaders and visionaries come together to engage in...
Company blog

Guide to Manufacturing & Distribution Sessions at Data + AI Summit 2021

April 30, 2021 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
Download our guide to Manufacturing at Data + AI Summit to help plan your Summit experience. Data + AI Summit is the global...
Company blog

Databricks Named Data Science & Analytics Launch Partner for New AWS for Media & Entertainment Initiative

April 29, 2021 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
“Digital transformation” isn’t just a buzzword – especially in the media and entertainment industry. More than just a more efficient way of creating...
Engineering blog

Solution Accelerator: Telco Customer Churn Predictor

Check out the solution accelerator to download the notebooks referred throughout this blog. When T-Mobile embraced the un-carrier label, they didn’t just kick...
Company blog

Learn How Disney+ Built Their Streaming Data Analytics Platform With Databricks and AWS to Improve the Customer Experience

December 14, 2020 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
https://youtu.be/WAOrqsHpJuM Martin Zapletal, Software Engineering Director at Disney+, is presenting at re:Invent 2020 with the session "How Disney+ uses fast data ubiquity to...
Company blog

Delta vs. Lambda: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity for Data Pipelines

November 20, 2020 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
“Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler” - Albert Einstein Generally, a simple data architecture is preferable to...
Company blog

How to Evaluate Data Pipelines for Cost to Performance

November 13, 2020 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
Learn best practices for designing and evaluating cost-to-performance benchmarks from Germany’s #1 weather portal. While we certainly conduct several benchmarks , we know...
Company blog

Media and Entertainment Agenda for Data + AI Summit Europe 2020

November 10, 2020 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
Looking for the best Media and Entertainment (M&E) events and sessions at Data + AI Summit Europe 2020 (Nov 17-19) ? Below are...
Company blog

Financial Services Agenda for Data + AI Summit Europe 2020

November 10, 2020 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
Looking for the best Financial Services events and sessions at Data + AI Summit Europe 2020 (Nov 17-19)? Below are some highlights. You...
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Retail and Consumer Goods Agenda for Data + AI Summit Europe 2020

November 9, 2020 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
Looking for the best Retail & CPG events and sessions at Data + AI Summit Europe 2020 (Nov 17-19)? Below are some highlights...
Company blog

Healthcare and Life Sciences Agenda for Data + AI Summit Europe 2020

November 9, 2020 by Hector Leano in Company Blog
Looking for the best Healthcare and Life Sciences events and sessions at Data + AI Summit Europe 2020 (Nov 17-19)? Below are some...
Engineering blog

Measuring Advertising Effectiveness with Sales Forecasting and Attribution

October 5, 2020 by Layla Yang and Hector Leano in Engineering Blog
Download the notebooks and watch the webinar for this solution accelerator How do you connect the impact of marketing and your ad spend...
Engineering blog

Profit-Driven Retention Management with Machine Learning

Companies with the highest loyalty ratings and retention rates grew revenues 250% faster than their industry peers and delivered two to five times...
Engineering blog

Flagging at-risk subscribers for direct-to-consumer media services

August 18, 2020 by Hector Leano and Steve Sobel in Engineering Blog
“The biggest problem for streaming services is not so much getting new members, it's holding them. It's the churn factor.” Tom Rogers, Executive...
Engineering blog

On Demand Virtual Workshop: Predicting Churn to Improve Customer Retention

The proliferation of subscription models has increased across industries: from direct-to-consumer brands for shaving supplies and prepared meals to streaming media services, at-home...
Company blog

Optimizing User Defined Functions with Apache Spark™ and R in the Real World: Scaling Pitch Scenario Analysis with the Minnesota Twins Part 2

Introduction In part 1 we talked about how Baseball Operations for the Minnesota Twins wanted to run up to 20k simulations on 15...
Engineering blog

On-Demand Virtual Session: Customer Lifetime Value

Before you can provide personalized services and offers to your customers, you need to know who they are. In this virtual workshop, retail...
Company blog

Retail and Consumer Goods Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss at Spark + AI Summit 2020

June 16, 2020 by Rob Saker and Hector Leano in Company Blog
The current economic environment is having a significant impact on the Retail and Consumer Goods sector. Rapid changes in how consumers shop is...
Company blog

Media and Entertainment Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss at Spark + AI Summit 2020

June 11, 2020 by Hector Leano in Customers
For years, the Spark + AI Summit has been the premier meeting place for organizations looking to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications at...
Company blog

How the Minnesota Twins Scaled Pitch Scenario Analysis to Measure Player Performance - Part 1

Statistical Analysis in the Game of Baseball A single pitch in Major League Baseball (MLB) generates tens of megabytes of data, from pitch...
Engineering blog

How to build a Quality of Service (QoS) analytics solution for streaming video services

Click on the following link to view and download the QoS notebooks discussed below in this article. Contents The Importance of Quality to...