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Introduction In part 1 we talked about how Baseball Operations for the Minnesota Twins wanted to run up to 20k simulations on 15 million historical pitches - 300 billion total simulations -  to more accurately evaluate player performance.  The idea is simple:  if 15 million historical pitches sketched an image of player performance, 300 billion...

We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now in Microsoft’s Azure Government region, enabling new data and AI use cases for federal agencies, state and local governments, public universities, and government contractors to enable faster decisions, more accurate predictions, and unified and collaborative data analytics. More than a dozen federal agencies are building...

On the closing day of Spark + AI Summit, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi recognized three exceptional data teams for how they came together to solve a tough problem-- delivering impact, innovation, and helping to make the world a better place. These are the inaugural Databricks Data Team Awards, and we were blown away by the...

SPARK + AI Summit, the world’s biggest gathering of data and artificial intelligence (AI) professionals, has arrived, and this year’s theme is ‘Data Teams Unite!’  So what better time to announce the finalists for the inaugural Databricks Data Team Awards? The Databricks Data Team Awards celebrate the data teams of engineers, scientists and analysts who...

The current economic environment is having a significant impact on the Retail and Consumer Goods sector. Rapid changes in how consumers shop is forcing companies to rethink their sales, marketing, and supply chain strategies. Companies can still reduce costs and win market share to drive stronger growth, but this requires new ways of understanding and...

The healthcare industry is in a rapid state of change. The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a light on how critical it is for healthcare payers, providers, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies to have clean, aggregated patient data at population scale along with technologies that allow them to use AI to interrogate this data. Answering questions...

Radical transformation is the theme of 2020, with customers demanding personalized products, improved protection against fraud, and digital experiences that match every small shift in behavior. Banks, insurance companies, and institutional investors are even more reliant on big data and AI to meet these demands and to outmaneuver the competition. For years, the Spark +...

For years, the Spark + AI Summit has been the premier meeting place for organizations looking to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications at scale with leading technologies such as Apache SparkTM, Delta Lake and MLflow. In 2020, we’re continuing the tradition by taking the summit entirely virtual. Data scientists and engineers from anywhere in the...

Guest blog by R Tyler Croy, Director of Platform Engineering at Scribd People don’t tend to get excited about the data platform. It is often regarded much like road infrastructure: nobody thinks much about how vital it is for them to get from points A to B, unless it’s terribly bad. Imagine my surprise when...

Statistical Analysis in the Game of Baseball  A single pitch in Major League Baseball (MLB) generates tens of megabytes of data, from pitch movement to ball rotation to hitter  behavior to the movement of each individual baseball player in response to a hit. How do you derive actionable insights from all this data over the...