We have a slightly abbreviated roundup this week due to travel to the Spark Summit. Spark 2.0 is the top story; I will do a full roundup when the release goes GA. Also, Bob Muenchen publishes another snippet from the long-awaited Rexer survey of working data miners. This one focuses on satisfaction with tools. KNIME and R look good; SAS
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Updated March 8, 2016. After publishing this post, I met with several IBM executives at Spark Summit East, who confirmed the accuracy of the original post and provided additional detail, which I’ve included in this version. Updates are in bold red italics. IBM also provided the low-resolution image. IBM has a good story to tell — one out of ten contributors
Read moreThree full business days post-announcement, and stories continue to roll in. Stephen Sowyer of TDWI writes an excellent summary of what Microsoft will likely do with Revolution Analytics. He correctly notes, for example, that Microsoft is unlikely to develop a business user interface for R with code-generating capabilities (comparable to SAS Enterprise Guide, for example). This is difficult to do,
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