Architecting for Data Quality in the Lakehouse with Delta Lake and PySpark
From null values and duplicate rows to modeling errors and schema changes, data can break for millions of reasons. To combat this, teams are increasingly adopting best practices from DevOps and software engineering to identify, resolve, and even prevent this “data downtime” from happening in the first place. Join Prateek Chawla and Ryan Kearns as […]
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Advancing Spark – Engineering behind Featurestore
In this video, Simon takes the same example notebook and looks at applying some engineering best practices, as well as looking at the delta table that sits underneath the featurestore. That way, we can understand the impact of these commands and properly get to grips with using Featurestore in a production environment. In a recent […]
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Data Science and Predictive Analytics with Azure Synapse
Discover new Azure Synapse features to integrate predictive analytics capabilities into your organization—using both code-free and code-first options for AI/ML.
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Jeeves Grows Up: An AI Chatbot for Performance and Quality
Jeeves is a chatbot created to simplify data operations management for enterprise Spark clusters. Powered by advanced AI algorithms and an intuitive conversational interface answers to get users in and out of problems quickly. Instead of being stuck to screens displaying logs and metrics, users can now have a more refreshing experience via a two-way […]
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Funnel Analysis with Apache Spark and Druid
Every day, millions of advertising campaigns are happening around the world. As campaign owners, measuring the ongoing campaign effectiveness (e.g “how many distinct users saw my online ad VS how many distinct users saw my online ad, clicked it and purchased my product?”) is super important. However, this task (often referred to as “funnel analysis”) […]
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Is the World Running Out Of Oil?
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- June 29, 2021
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- Spark
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Is the world in danger of running out of oil or will a combination of new technologies, advanced analytics, and diversifying energy sources make this a non-issue?
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Advancing Spark – Runtime 8 2 and Advanced Schema Evolution
Another week, another new Databricks Runtime. Runtime 8.2 brings some nice functionality around operational metrics, but the big star of the week is the new Schema Inference & Evolution functionality available through Autoloader. In this video, Simon takes a look through simple schema inference, applying schema hints and watching the schema metadata evolve through the […]
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Configuring Azure Databricks Spot VM Clusters
Azure Spot VMs are incredibly cheap CPUs that come with the risk of being evicted if enough demand for full-price CPUs occurs in the region. Luckily, Spark is a resilient distributed system that can easily handle replacing nodes, and so we’re left with a very cost effective approach to provisioning lower-priority workloads! In this video, […]
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Azure Databricks News – March 2021
With all the things coming out in Azure Databricks recently, Advancing Analytics is starting a monthly roundup of the platform updates and any runtime additions. March 2021 has seen a whole load of new features, from the GA of Runtime 8.0 AND 8.1, Spot VM bidding, workspace limit lifting and more. Check out this month’s […]
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Exploring Databricks Runtime 7.6 and 8.0
Advancing Analytics takes a closer look at the two new runtimes available for Databricks. We have not just one but two new Databricks Runtimes currently in preview – 7.6 brings several new features focussing on making Autoloader more flexible, improving performance of Optimize and Structured Streaming. Runtime 8.0 is a much wider change, seeing the […]
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