by Ian J. Ghent | Oct 21, 2015 | Apache Spark, Java, Python, R, Scala
The revolution of Spark is igniting an vigorous debate within the data operations, data science and analytic professionals community. Spark supports of 4 different programming languages (not including SQL), making choosing a programming language difficult. Although...
by Content Manager | Oct 16, 2015 | Apache Spark, SAS
Forest Fang has been kind enough to update his SAS dataset reader for Spark 1.5 (spark-sas7bdat), and added support for converting the SAS date format. It’s a very useful tool for anyone running SAS and Spark together or migrating from SAS to Spark. Here’s...
by Content Manager | Oct 2, 2015 | PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 2, 2015 – Ottawa, Canada: WiseWithData, leading experts in Apache Spark and legacy SAS analytics, has signed a multi-year agreement to provide passport demand forecasting to Passport Canada (IRCC). As part of the agreement,...