Announcing Free Spark 101 Training Day

by | Mar 6, 2017 | Apache Spark, Python

We are proud to be offering a free training day in Ottawa on Tuesday April 25, 2017 in  Ottawa. Please email inquiry@wisewithdata.com if you would like to attend. Spaces are limited. Below is a syllabus of the topics that will be covered, which includes live coding...

Is SAS still relevant?

by | Jun 8, 2016 | Uncategorized

I’m increasingly being asked the same question in a number of different ways. Essentially the question boils down to this; Given that open-source analytics, and Apache Spark in particular have become such a force to be reckoned with, does SAS still have any...

The summer of Spark 2.0

by | May 11, 2016 | Apache Spark

Summer is almost upon us, the birds are chirping the frogs are croaking, and the smell of 2.0 is in the air. The great team of Spark developers have turned a corner and are busy fixing and polishing 2.0 for release, likely coming in 6-8 weeks from now. I’m so...

When seeing the future is not enough

by | Nov 3, 2015 | Apache Spark

When IBM announced in June that they would be making a major investment in Apache Spark, little details were revealed. The only said that 3,500 developers would be assigned to working on Spark work. Last week we got a bit more detail on what exactly they have in mind...

Sparking a language debate

by | 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...