Building Forward-Looking Intelligence With External Data
This post was written in collaboration with the Foursquare data team. We thank co-author Javier Soliz, sales engineer specializing in data engineering and...
Fine-Grained Time Series Forecasting at Scale With Facebook Prophet and Apache Spark: Updated for Spark 3
Advances in time series forecasting are enabling retailers to generate more reliable demand forecasts. The challenge now is to produce these forecasts in...
Analyzing Algorand Blockchain Data With Databricks Delta (Part 2)
Get an early preview of O'Reilly's new ebook for the step-by-step guidance you need to start using Delta Lake. This post was written...
Automatically Evolve Your Nested Column Schema, Stream From a Delta Table Version, and Check Your Constraints
We recently announced the release of Delta Lake 0.8.0 , which introduces schema evolution and performance improvements in merge and operational metrics in...
Burning Through Electronic Health Records in Real Time With Smolder
Check out the solution accelerator to download the notebook referred throughout this blog. In previous blogs , we looked at two separate workflows...
Flagging at-risk subscribers for direct-to-consumer media services
“The biggest problem for streaming services is not so much getting new members, it's holding them. It's the churn factor.” Tom Rogers, Executive...
On Demand Virtual Workshop: Predicting Churn to Improve Customer Retention
The proliferation of subscription models has increased across industries: from direct-to-consumer brands for shaving supplies and prepared meals to streaming media services, at-home...
A look at the new Structured Streaming UI in Apache Spark 3.0
This is a guest community post from Genmao Yu, a software engineer at Alibaba. Structured Streaming was initially introduced in Apache Spark 2.0...
Analyzing Customer Attrition in Subscription Models
Download the notebooks to demo the solution covered below The subscription model is experiencing a renaissance. Gone are the days of the penny...
Monitor Your Databricks Workspace with Audit Logs
Cloud computing has fundamentally changed how companies operate - users are no longer subject to the restrictions of on-premises hardware deployments such as...