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 Ian J. Ghent | 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...
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...
