Big Analytics Roundup (March 2, 2015)

Here is a roundup of some recent Big Analytics news and analysis.

General

• SiliconAngle covers the Big Data money trail.

Apache Spark

• Curt Monash writes about Databricks and Spark on his DBMS2 blog.
• On the Databricks blog, Dave Wang summarizes Spark highlights from Strata + Hadoop World.
• In this post, Hammer Lab describes how to monitor Spark with Graphite and Grafana.
• Cloudera announces Hive on Spark beta.
• InfoWorld covers Spark’s planned support for R in Release 1.3.
• Qubole announces Spark as a Service.

 Dato/GraphLab

• Dato announces new version of GraphLab Create.

 H2O

• From Strata + Hadoop World, Prithvi Pravu talks about using H2O.
• Also from Strata, here is Cliff Click’s presentation on H2O, Spark and Python.
• On the H2O blog, Arno Candel publishes a performance tuning guide for H2O Deep Learning.