On September 15th, 2021, after more than 18 months, I was finally able to give a talk in person. My conference schedule did not really go down during the pandemic, […]

Drsti (pronounced drishti) is an effortless data visualization that interfaces easily with Apache Spark

Spark in Action, second edition, has been out for about a month and was running a little low in some stores, so here is a convenient list of stores where […]

In this episode, you will learn about doing a basic ETL (extract, transform, and load) operation using Apache Spark. You will load a basic CSV file with Apache Spark, make […]

Starting today, I will host a weekly live show about data. You may join, attend “live,” and ask questions as I go through a data-oriented topic. For now, the topic […]

I just wanted to share with you the latest update on Spark in Action, second edition What’s new? Chapter 12, “Transforming your data“ Chapter 13, “Transforming entire documents“ Appendix K, […]

When I assembled my first data science team, the term was barely getting printed in the Harvard Business Review. I had no clue that I was building a team pioneering […]