How We Launched a Podcast: Lessons, (Minor) Mishaps & Key Takeaways
After six episodes featuring amazing leaders and practitioners in the data and AI community, we wrapped up season 1 of Data Brew by Databricks, our homegrown podcast hosted by us two - Denny and Brooke. This season focused on all things lakehouses - combining the key features of data warehouses, such as ACID transactions, with...
Fatal Force: Exploring Police Shootings With SQL Analytics
Introduction Data has shown that police in the United States kill civilians at a rate far higher than police in other wealthy countries.1 In 2019, law enforcement in the U.S. killed 33.5 civilians per 10 million people, compared to 1.3 in Germany and 0.5 in the U.K.2 This use of deadly force falls disproportionately on...
Women’s Equality Day: Cultivating Leadership, Communication and Negotiation Skills
Databricks is committed to fostering an environment that promotes equality and inclusion. For Women’s Equality Day on August 26, we invited Coco Brown, founder and CEO of Athena Alliance — a digital platform dedicated to revolutionizing leadership — to present a talk about women in leadership and the path to the boardroom. This talk highlighted...
Scalable End-to-End Deep Learning using TensorFlow™ and Databricks: On-Demand Webinar and FAQ Now Available!
On July 9th, our team hosted a live webinar—Scalable End-to-End Deep Learning using TensorFlow™ and Databricks—with Brooke Wenig, Data Science Solutions Consultant at Databricks and Sid Murching, Software Engineer at Databricks. In this webinar, we walked you through how to use TensorFlow™ and Horovod (an open-source library from Uber to simplify distributed model training) on...
