A Guide to the Databricks + AWS Cloud Data Lake Dev Day WorkshopAugust 24, 2020 by Kristen Stewart and Andreana Phillips in Partners The Databricks team has been working hard to recreate content and enhance the experience as we transition all our events to a virtual...
Data with impact: A look back at the first Hackathon for Social GoodAugust 7, 2020 by Ryan Boyd in Company Blog As global citizens, more and more businesses are investing in corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs to help solve the issues of system social...
Optimizing User Defined Functions with Apache Spark™ and R in the Real World: Scaling Pitch Scenario Analysis with the Minnesota Twins Part 2July 21, 2020 by Rafi Kurlansik, Tushar Madan and Hector Leano in Company Blog Introduction In part 1 we talked about how Baseball Operations for the Minnesota Twins wanted to run up to 20k simulations on 15...
Azure Databricks Now Available in Azure Government (Public Preview)July 14, 2020 by David Cook, Andrew Ledford and Clinton Ford in Product We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now in Microsoft’s Azure Government region, enabling new data and AI use cases for...
Meet the 2020 Databricks Data Team Awards WinnersJune 26, 2020 by Hatim Shafique in Company Blog On the closing day of Spark + AI Summit, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi recognized three exceptional data teams for how they came together...