Profit-Driven Retention Management with Machine Learning
Companies with the highest loyalty ratings and retention rates grew revenues 250% faster than their industry peers and delivered two to five times the shareholder returns over a 10 year period. Earning...
View ArticleA Guide to the Databricks + AWS Cloud Data Lake Dev Day Workshop
The Databricks team has been working hard to recreate content and enhance the experience as we transition all our events to a virtual experience. And we’ve learned a thing or two about what you want to...
View Article%tensorboard – a new way to use TensorBoard on Databricks
Introduction With the Databricks Runtime 7.2 release, we are introducing a new magic command %tensorboard. This brings the interactive TensorBoard experience Jupyter notebook users expect to their...
View ArticleWomen’s Equality Day: Cultivating Leadership, Communication and Negotiation...
Databricks celebrated Women’s Equality Day with a talk by Coco Brown Databricks is committed to fostering an environment that promotes equality and inclusion. For Women’s Equality Day on August 26, we...
View ArticleEnabling Spark SQL DDL and DML in Delta Lake on Apache Spark 3.0
Last week, we had a fun Delta Lake 0.7.0 + Apache Spark 3.0 AMA where Burak Yavuz, Tathagata Das, and Denny Lee provided a recap of Delta Lake 0.7.0 and answered your Delta Lake questions. The theme...
View ArticleImproving Public Health Surveillance During COVID-19 with Data Analytics and AI
As the leader of the State and Local Government business at Databricks, I get to see what governments all over the U.S. are doing to address the Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19 crisis. I am continually...
View ArticleOperationalize 100 Machine Learning Models in as Little as 12 Weeks with...
In rapidly changing environments, Azure Databricks enables organizations to spot new trends, respond to unexpected challenges and predict new opportunities. Organizations are leveraging machine...
View ArticleIntroducing the Databricks Web Terminal
Introduction We’re excited to introduce the public preview of the Databricks Web Terminal in the 3.25 platform release. Any user with “Can Attach To” cluster permissions can now use the Web Terminal to...
View ArticleDatabricks Unified Data Analytics Platform for AWS Gets a Major Upgrade
Now generally available an upgraded platform architecture that adds customer-managed IP access lists, customer managed-VPC, Account API, multiple workspaces per account, cluster level policies, IAM...
View ArticleSpark + AI Summit Europe is Expanding and Getting a New Name: Data + AI...
Back in 2013, we held the first Spark Summit — a gathering of the Apache Spark™ community with leading contributors and production users sharing their wisdom. Since the first event, Spark’s success has...
View ArticleAn Update on Project Zen: Improving Apache Spark for Python Users
Apache Spark™ has reached its 10th anniversary with Apache Spark 3.0 which has many significant improvements and new features including but not limited to type hint support in pandas UDF, better error...
View ArticleIt’s an ESG World and We’re Just Living in it
The future of finance goes hand in hand with socially responsible investing, environmental stewardship, and corporate ethics. In order to stay competitive, Financial Services Institutions (FSI) are...
View ArticleDiving Deep Into the Inner Workings of the Lakehouse and Delta Lake
Earlier this year, Databricks wrote a blog that outlined how more and more enterprises are adopting the lakehouse pattern. The blog created a massive amount of interest from technology enthusiasts....
View ArticleAnnouncing Databricks Labs Terraform integration on AWS and Azure
We are pleased to announce integration for deploying and managing Databricks environments on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) with HashiCorp Terraform. It is a popular open source tool...
View ArticleEasily Clone your Delta Lake for Testing, Sharing, and ML Reproducibility
Introducing Clones An efficient way to make copies of large datasets for testing, sharing and reproducing ML experiments We are excited to introduce a new capability in Databricks Delta Lake – table...
View ArticleBuilding a Modern Risk Management Platform in Financial Services
This blog was collaboratively written with Databricks partner Avanade. A special thanks to Dael Williamson, Avanade CTO, for his contributions. Financial Institutions today are still struggling to keep...
View ArticleAutomate Azure Databricks Platform Provisioning and Configuration
Table of Contents Introduction Automation options Common workflow Pre-Requisites Create Azure Resource Group and Virtual Network Provision Azure Application / Service Principal Assign Role to Service...
View ArticleRegistration Open for Inaugural Data + AI Summit Europe
Data + AI Summit Europe will take place 17-19 November and is now open for registration! Formerly known as the Spark + AI Summit, this free and virtual event is expanded to bring together the world’s...
View ArticleIt’s a Good Time to be a Brickster!
Despite what has been an incredibly challenging year for so many, both personally and professionally, we are proud to have a more passionate and engaged team of Bricksters than ever. And we’re...
View ArticleHow Relogix reduced infrastructure costs by 80% with Delta Lake and Azure...
Introduction Relogix is a leading workspace analytics and sensor-as-a-service provider for workplace monitoring, management, and performance. Founded on a decade of Corporate Real Estate (CRE) data and...
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