by Ian J. Ghent | Sep 15, 2017 | Apache Spark
The team here at WiseWithData will be traveling across the big pond in a few weeks to attend Spark Summit Europe 2017 in Dublin. This fantastic event brings some of the top data science professionals from around the globe together, to share ideas and knowledge about...
by Ian J. Ghent | Jul 11, 2017 | Apache Spark, Python, R
After over 3 months of intensive testing, Spark 2.2 was released today. This release contains over 1,100 improvements, bug fixes, and new features. The most importantly, Spark now has a Cost-Based Optimizer (CBO). Huawei and Databricks worked together on the ability...
by Ian J. Ghent | 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...
by Ian J. Ghent | 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...
by Content Manager | Mar 18, 2016 | Apache Spark, SAS, Solutions
WiseWithData is proud to introduce SPROCKET, the world’s first comprehensive automated solution for migrating SAS based ETL and analytics jobs into the modern world of Apache Spark. Since founding WiseWithData, our priority has helping customers benefit from...
by Content Manager | Jan 14, 2016 | Apache Spark, Java, Python, R, Scala, Uncategorized
The next major release of Apache Spark is now available. As usual, it contains a huge number of improvements across a the whole platform. Here’s a quick run down of some of the big changes: New Dataset API The Dataframes API, and it’s major advantages...
