Databricks Lecture Series at UC Berkeley School of Information
This is a collaborative post from Databricks and UC Berkeley. We thank Tia Foss, Director of Philanthropy, UC Berkeley School of Information, for her contributions. Databricks began in the computer labs of the University of California, Berkeley, where talented computer science graduate students, such as Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, realized that open-source, cloud-based scalable...
Databricks and University of Rochester
At Databricks, we strongly believe (“know” you could say) that data and AI are mission-critical for solving the biggest problems our world faces. From healthcare to sustainability to transportation, data is a key to understanding and analyzing these issues at the deepest level – often in real time – and in turn shapes effective solutions....
Online Learning with Databricks
Recently, a gentleman named Scott Galloway was featured in an article in New York Magazine about how Covid-19 is breaking the higher education business model. The article led to an invitation to a live interview with Anderson Cooper (full transcript of that interview can be found here). When I watched that segment and saw Anderson...
Databricks Launches Global University Alliance Program
We are excited to announce the Databricks University Alliance, a global program to help students get hands-on experience using Databricks for both in-person learning and in virtual classrooms. Educators and faculty can apply here; upon acceptance members will get access to curated curriculum content, training materials, sample notebooks, webinars, and other pre-recorded content for learning...
