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 | 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...
by Content Manager | Jun 29, 2015 | Apache Spark, SAS
For those making the switch from SAS to Spark, this utility should come in very handy. It is able to read sas7bdat datasets in parallel (if they aren’t compressed) and load them into Spark, very cool. Check it out...
