Posts by Kevin Rasmussen

This is a joint guest community blog by Li Jin at Two Sigma and Kevin Rasmussen at Databricks; they share how to use Flint with Apache Spark. Introduction The volume of data that data scientists face these days increases relentlessly, and we now find that a traditional, single-machine solution is no longer adequate to the demands...

Two characteristics commonly mark many companies' success. First, they quickly adapt to new technology. Second, as a result, they gain technological leadership and, in turn, greater market share. Organizations that can quickly turn insight into action maintain huge advantages over their competition. The key to exploiting analytics in an agile and iterative fashion is a...