Paraphrasing Garrison Keillor, it's been a quiet week in the Apache Spark community - at least compared to last year, where the definitive Spark 2.0 was unveiled. Last week, Spark Summit pulled into ...

Spark Therapeutics’ chief medical officer Kathy Reape is set to leave the biotech. Reape is one of the senior Spark staffers hitting the exit in the aftermath of Roche’s $4.3 billion takeover. Kathy ...

As I wrote in March of this year, the Databricks service is an excellent product for data scientists. It has a full assortment of ingestion, feature selection, model building, and evaluation functions ...

Databricks, corporate provider of support and development for the Apache Spark in-memory big data project, has spiced up its cloud-based implementation of Apache Spark with two additions that top IT’s ...