by Ian J. Ghent | Mar 18, 2022 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Cloud Computing, Python, SAS
What an absurd title! A strange twist on the “working hard or hardly working” cliché, but read on and I promise it will all make sense. Here’s a tale of a court jester and his great invention. Long ago in a vast and complex kingdom, there lived a great king. The...
by Ian J. Ghent | Mar 1, 2022 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Python, R, SAS
Back in 2015, when we set out to build SPROCKET, the World’s only SAS modernization solution, one key design question plagued our thoughts. Scalable, simple, fast and open-source, it was obvious from the early days of Apache Spark that it was analytics platform...
by Ian J. Ghent | Jan 28, 2022 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Python, SAS
Not to date myself, but I’ve been using SAS for over 25 years. I’ve worked at banks like Capital One and Citibank, Telecom companies like Verizon and Bell Canada, government institutions like Statistics Canada, and the company behind the SAS language. In all my years...
by Ian J. Ghent | Dec 7, 2021 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Customer Experience, Python, SAS
This is a collaborative post between Databricks and WiseWithData. We thank Founder and President Ian J. Ghent, Head of Pre-Sales Solutions R &D Bryan Chuinkam, and Head of Migration Solutions R&D Ban (Mike) Sun of WiseWithData for their contributions....
by Ian J. Ghent | Jun 7, 2021 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Python, SAS
The majority of the revenue derived from the SAS language comes from three highly regulated industries, Financial Services, Insurance, and Health & Life Sciences (HLS). In fact, its dominance in those industries, comes in part from regulators historical...
