Accelerating R Workflows on Databricks
At Databricks we strive to make our Unified Analytics Platform the best place to run big data analytics. For big data, Apache Spark...
Building Complex Data Pipelines with Unified Analytics Platform
Introduction Big data practitioners often post recurring questions on Quora: What is data engineering? How to become a data scientist? What’s a data...
Developing Custom Machine Learning Algorithms in PySpark
Developing custom Machine Learning (ML) algorithms in PySpark—the Python API for Apache Spark—can be challenging and laborious. In this blog post, we describe...
On-Demand Webinar and FAQ: Parallelize R Code Using Apache Spark
On August 15th, Data Science Central hosted a live webinar—Parallelize R Code Using Apache Spark—with Databricks’ Hossein Falaki . This webinar introduced SparkR...
Breaking the “curse of dimensionality” in Genomics using “wide” Random Forests
This is a guest blog from members of CSIRO’s transformational bioinformatics team in Sydney, Australia. CSIRO, Australia’s government research agency, is in the...