An Update on Project Zen: Improving Apache Spark for Python Users
Apache Spark™ has reached its 10th anniversary with Apache Spark 3.0 which has many significant improvements and new features including but not limited...
Introducing the Databricks Web Terminal
Introduction We're excited to introduce the public preview of the Databricks Web Terminal in the 3.25 platform release. Any user with "Can Attach...
Improving Public Health Surveillance During COVID-19 with Data Analytics and AI
As the leader of the State and Local Government business at Databricks, I get to see what governments all over the U.S. are...
Enabling Spark SQL DDL and DML in Delta Lake on Apache Spark 3.0
Get an early preview of O'Reilly's new ebook for the step-by-step guidance you need to start using Delta Lake. Last week, we had...
%tensorboard - a new way to use TensorBoard on Databricks
Introduction With the Databricks Runtime 7.2 release , we are introducing a new magic command %tensorboard . This brings the interactive TensorBoard experience...
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...
Flagging at-risk subscribers for direct-to-consumer media services
“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...
Interoperability between Koalas and Apache Spark
Koalas is an open source project which provides a drop-in replacement for pandas, enabling efficient scaling out to hundreds of worker nodes for...
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...
Modern Industrial IoT Analytics on Azure - Part 1
This post and the three-part series about Industrial IoT analytics were jointly authored by Databricks and members of the Microsoft Cloud Solution Architecture...