Combining Rules-based and AI Models to Combat Financial Fraud
The financial services industry (FSI) is rushing towards transformational change, delivering transactional features and facilitating payments through new digital channels to remain competitive. Unfortunately, the speed and convenience that these capabilities afford also benefit fraudsters. Fraud in financial services still remains the number one threat to organizations’ bottom line given the record-high increase in overall...
Bayesian Modeling of the Temporal Dynamics of COVID-19 Using PyMC3
In this post, we look at how to use PyMC3 to infer the disease parameters for COVID-19. PyMC3 is a popular probabilistic programming framework that is used for Bayesian modeling. Two popular methods to accomplish this are the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Variational Inference methods. The work here looks at using the currently...
How to Manage Python Dependencies in PySpark
Controlling the environment of an application is often challenging in a distributed computing environment - it is difficult to ensure all nodes have the desired environment to execute, it may be tricky to know where the user’s code is actually running, and so on. Apache Spark™ provides several standard ways to manage dependencies across the...
Natively Query Your Delta Lake With Scala, Java, and Python
Today, we’re happy to announce that you can natively query your Delta Lake with Scala and Java (via the Delta Standalone Reader) and Python (via the Delta Rust API). Delta Lake is an open-source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes. Delta Lake provides ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, and unifies streaming and batch...
Personalizing the Customer Experience with Recommendations
Go directly to the Recommendation notebooks referenced throughout this post. Retail made a giant leap forward in the adoption of e-commerce in 2020, E-commerce as a percentage of total retail saw multiple years of progress in one year. Meanwhile, COVID, lockdowns and economic uncertainty have completely disrupted how we engage and retain customers. Companies need...
Python Autocomplete Improvements for Databricks Notebooks
At Databricks, we strive to provide a world-class development experience for data scientists and engineers, and new features are constantly getting added to our notebooks to improve our users’ productivity. We are especially excited about the latest of these features, a new autocomplete experience for Python notebooks (powered by the Jedi library ) and new...
ACID Transactions on Data Lakes Tech Talks: Getting Started with Delta Lake
As part of our Data + AI Online Meetup, we’ve explored topics ranging from genomics (with guests from Regeneron) to machine learning pipelines and GPU-accelerated ML to Tableau performance optimization. One key topic area has been an exploration of the Lakehouse. The rise of the Lakehouse architectural pattern is built upon tech innovations enabling the...
MLflow Model Registry on Databricks Simplifies MLOps With CI/CD Features
MLflow helps organizations manage the ML lifecycle through the ability to track experiment metrics, parameters, and artifacts, as well as deploy models to batch or real-time serving systems. The MLflow Model Registry provides a central repository to manage the model deployment lifecycle, acting as the hub between experimentation and deployment. A critical part of MLOps,...
How to Train XGBoost With Spark
XGBoost is currently one of the most popular machine learning libraries and distributed training is becoming more frequently required to accommodate the rapidly increasing size of datasets. To utilize distributed training on a Spark cluster, the XGBoost4J-Spark package can be used in Scala pipelines but presents issues with Python pipelines. This article will go over...
MLflow 1.12 Features Extended PyTorch Integration
MLflow 1.12 features include extended PyTorch integration, SHAP model explainability, autologging MLflow entities for supported model flavors, and a number of UI and document improvements. Now available on PyPI and the docs online, you can install this new release with pip install mlflow==1.12.0 as described in the MLflow quickstart guide. In this blog, we briefly...
