Introduction With the Databricks Runtime 7.2 release , we are introducing a new magic command %tensorboard . This brings the interactive TensorBoard experience...
SparkR User-Defined Function (UDF) API opens up opportunities for big data workloads running on Apache Spark to embrace R's rich package ecosystem. Some...
On August 15th, Data Science Central hosted a live webinar—Parallelize R Code Using Apache Spark—with Databricks’ Hossein Falaki . This webinar introduced SparkR...
One of our philosophies in Apache Spark is to provide rich and friendly built-in libraries so that users can easily assemble data pipelines. With Spark, and MLlib in particular, quickly gaining traction among data scientists and machine learning practitioners, we’re observing a growing demand for data analysis support outside of model fitting. To address this need, we have started to add scalable implementations of common statistical functions to facilitate v