by Ian J. Ghent | Jun 8, 2016 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Python, SAS, 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...
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 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...
