Posts by Michael Ortega

On August 20th, our team hosted a live webinar—Automated Monitoring of Medical Device Data with Data Science—with Frank Austin Nothaft, PhD, Technical Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences, and Michael Ortega, Senior Industry and Solutions Marketing Manager. By applying machine learning to medical device data, healthcare organizations can automate patient monitoring, reduce repair costs with...

Spark + AI Summit is the premier global event for the data and machine learning community to discuss the latest advances in open-source technologies such as Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas and TensorFlow as well as best practices for deploying AI in the real world. In addition to over 100 exciting breakout sessions, this...

On June 26th, we hosted a live webinar — Deep Learning on Medical Images at Population-scale— with members of the data science and engineering teams from Human Longevity Inc (HLI), a leader in medical imaging and genomics. During the webinar, HLI shared how they use MRI images, whole-genome sequencing data, and other clinical data sets...

FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), a regulatory body charged with protecting the U.S. securities market, spoke at the Spark + AI Summit on how they use Databricks Unified Analytics Platform to analyze up to a 100 billion stock market events per day for fraud detection and prevention. This is a summary of their story from Summit....

Data and AI are ushering in a new era of precision medicine. The scale of the cloud, combined with advancements in machine learning, are enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations to use their mountains of data—such as electronic health records, genomics, real-world evidence, claims, and more—to drive innovation across the entire ecosystem, from accelerating drug...

The financial services industry is transforming rapidly. Customers today demand more personalized experiences, better returns on their investments and improved protection against fraud. As a result,  every bank, insurance company and institutional investor is turning towards big data and AI to meet these demands and outmaneuver the competition. Spark + AI Summit is the premier...

Over the past several years, Spark + AI Summit has become the premier event for data scientists, engineers, and Apache SparkTM enthusiasts to come together and share how they’re driving innovation with the latest data and machine learning technologies. Last year’s Summit set a new record, with more than 4000 attendees and over 100 talks...

From Static Data Warehouse to Scalable Insights and AI On-Demand Government agencies today are dealing with a wider variety of data at a much larger scale. From satellite imagery to sensor data to citizen records, petabytes of semi- and unstructured data is collected each day. Unfortunately, traditional data warehouses are failing to provide government agencies...

With 2019 in full swing, the excitement for data and AI driven innovation continues. Over the past few years, we’ve seen leading innovators - like Riot Games, Regeneron and Shell - become early adopters of the latest machine learning and AI technologies, building and deploying AI applications into production. But with great promise comes great...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is picking up steam. Enterprises are looking for new ways to deploy AI to transform their business and gain a competitive edge. With the power of machine learning (ML) fueled by the insights mined from massive volumes of data, AI is no longer only for the 1%, but quickly becoming an...