The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...

At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks today made the requisite number of announcements one would expect from a company’s flagship developer event. Among those are the launch of Delta Lake 2.0, the next ...

Video: Machine learning: What it is and why it matters Hold those thoughts for a moment. Databricks, the company whose founders created the Apache Spark project, has sought to ride Spark's original ...

In part one of this two-part series, I described what many organizations have done in their first phase of digital transformation. Here, in part two, I explain how organizations should think ...