Spark Summit 2016 met last week in SFO. There were many cool things; I will publish a separate report when presentations and videos are available. KDnuggets releases results of its annual poll on data science software. Key findings: Python use is up 51%, almost catches up to R, the #1 choice. Excel and Tableau usage are up 47% and 49%,
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We have a nice harvest of explainers this week, plus eight hard news stories: Gartner Updates Advanced Analytics MQ DataRobot Lands Cash MapR and Hortonworks Report Robust Revenue StreamAnalytix Adds Spark Support BlueData Announces Something Looker Delivers SQL on Hadoop New RStudio Release New Anaconda Release R has a new logo. On the Databricks blog, Tim Hunter and Joseph Bradley announce
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Cloudera’s expanded Spark support leads the news this week, together with a Data Science Virtual Machine from Microsoft. Neural network devotees will be pleased to see that Keras now runs on TensorFlow. On the Databricks blog, H2O.ai’s Michal Malohlava describes Sparking Water, a Spark package that enables data scientists to build machine learning pipelines that integrate Spark and H2O functions.
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Top stories for the penultimate week of summer: an excellent SQL-on-Hadoop benchmark; a couple of stories about Gelly, Flink’s graph engine; Apache Ignite goes top-level; a preview of Spark 1.5; and new stuff from RStudio. Also, on Slideshare, evil mad scientist Paco Nathan presents on “Uber for Education.” SQL on Hadoop I missed this story in June, but better late
Read moreWhich is better for analytics, SAS or R? One frequently sees discussions on this topic in social media; for examples, see here, here, here, here, here and here. Like many debates in social media, the degree of conviction is often inverse to the quantity of information, and these discussions often produce more heat than light. The question is serious. Many
Read moreAnalytics conferences tend to be held in places like Orlando or Las Vegas, where it’s sunny and warm all of the time and there are copious incidental pleasures to fill the off hours. I can’t speak to the incidental pleasures of Minneapolis in January, but warm it is not; peak temperature on Monday had a minus sign in front of
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