Near-Real-Time Hardware Failure Rate Estimation with Bayesian Reasoning
You might be using Bayesian techniques in your data science without knowing it! And if you're not, then it could enhance the power of your analysis. This blog follows the introduction to Bayesian reasoning on Data Science Central, and will demonstrate how these ideas can improve a real-world use case: estimating hard drive failure rate...
Accelerating Machine Learning on Databricks: On-Demand Webinar and FAQ Now Available!
On January 15th, we hosted a live webinar—Accelerating Machine Learning on Databricks—with Adam Conway, VP of Product Management, Machine Learning, at Databricks and Hossein Falaki, Software Development Engineer and Data Scientist at Databricks. In this webinar, we covered some of the latest innovations brought into the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform for Machine Learning. In particular,...
Databricks Runtime 5.2 ML Features Multi-GPU Workflow, Pregel API, and Performant GraphFrames
We are excited to announce the release of Databricks Runtime 5.2 for Machine Learning. This release includes several new features and performance improvements to help developers easily use machine learning on the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. Continuing our efforts to make developers’ lives easy to build deep learning applications, this release includes the following features...
Kicking Off 2019 with an MLflow User Survey
It’s been six months since we launched MLflow, an open source platform to manage the machine learning lifecycle, and the project has been moving quickly since then. MLflow fills a role that hasn’t been served well in the open source community so far: managing the development lifecycle for ML, including tracking experiments and metrics, building...
Introducing Databricks Runtime 5.1 for Machine Learning
Last week, we released Databricks Runtime 5.1 Beta for Machine Learning. As part of our commitment to provide developers with the latest deep learning frameworks, this release includes the best of these libraries. In particular, our PyTorch addition makes it simple for a developer to simply import the appropriate Python torch modules and start coding,...
MLflow v0.8.1 Features Faster Experiment UI and Enhanced Python Model
MLflow v0.8.1 was released this week. It introduces several UI enhancements, including faster load times for thousands of runs and improved responsiveness when navigating runs with many metrics and parameters. Additionally, it expands support for evaluating Python models as Apache Spark UDFs and automatically captures model dependencies as Conda environments. Now available on PyPI and...
Introducing Databricks Runtime 5.0 for Machine Learning
Six months ago we introduced the Databricks Runtime for Machine Learning with the goal of making machine learning performant and easy on the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. The Databricks Runtime for ML comes pre-packaged with many ML frameworks and enables distributed training and inference. Today we are excited to release the second iteration including Conda...
MLflow v0.8.0 Features Improved Experiment UI and Deployment Tools
Last week we released MLflow v0.8.0 with multiple new features, including improved UI experience and support for deploying models directly via Docker containers to the Azure Machine Learning Service Workspace. Now available on PyPI and with docs online, you can install this new release with pip install mlflow as described in the MLflow quickstart guide....
Applying your Convolutional Neural Network: On-Demand Webinar and FAQ Now Available!
On October 25th, we hosted a live webinar—Applying your Convolutional Neural Network—with Denny Lee, Technical Product Marketing Manager at Databricks. This is the third webinar of a free deep learning fundamental series from Databricks. In this webinar, we dived deeper into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a particular type of neural networks that assume that inputs...
Introducing Apache Spark 2.4
UPDATED: 11/19/2018 We are excited to announce the availability of Apache Spark 2.4 on Databricks as part of the Databricks Runtime 5.0. We want to thank the Apache Spark community for all their valuable contributions to the Spark 2.4 release. Continuing with the objectives to make Spark faster, easier, and smarter, Spark 2.4 extends its...
