Posts by Brian Dirking

At Databricks, we are thrilled to announce the integration of RStudio with the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. You can try it out now with this RMarkdown notebook (Rmd | HTML) or visit us at www.databricks.com/rstudio. For R practitioners looking at scaling out R-based advanced analytics to big data, Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform that...

It’s hard to believe that we are already three weeks into 2018. If you’re still struggling to get valuable insights from your data, now is the perfect time to try something new! We recently announced Azure Databricks, a fast, easy and collaborative Apache® Spark™ based analytics platform optimized for Azure. With Azure Databricks, you can help your...

Today we released our Databricks Unified Analytics Platform video. This short video illustrates to analytics leaders how Databricks can unify their analytics efforts onto one platform. This unification makes analytics teams more efficient and enables them to tackle tougher analytics problems. Many organizations are moving to Spark for the awesome big data processing power it...

Today we announced that Amazon has awarded Databricks with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning (ML) Competency status. This designation recognizes Databricks for enabling data scientists and machine learning practitioners with tools to take their data, train predictive models and make predictions on new data. Attaining the AWS ML Competency demonstrates to customers that Databricks...

We are very excited today as we announce a partnership between Databricks and Looker. We have seen customers using these products together to provide an easy and intuitive way for business users to visualize and discover the powerful analytics results of Apache Spark. Using Looker and Databricks, you can experience the following benefits: Easy to...