A new version of sparklyr is now available on CRAN! In this sparklyr 1.2 release, the following new improvements have emerged into spotlight: A registerDoSpark() method to create a foreach parallel backend powered by Spark that enables hundreds of exi...

There’s an old saying (at least old in data scientist years) that goes, “90% of data science is data wrangling.” This rings particularly true for data science leaders, who watch their data scientists spend days painstakingly picking a...

Balancing the twin threats of data science development Data science leaders naturally want to maximize the value their teams deliver to their organization, and that often means helping them navigate between two possible extremes. On the one hand, a tea...

The Root Problem: We Don’t All Speak the Same Language Organizations across the modern business world recognize the critical importance of Data Science for competitive advantage. That recognition has driven Glassdoor to rate Data Scientist as one...

Recently, we were joined by the smart folks at Roche & Novartis to present a webinar on effective data visualization. You can watch the recording of the full presentation here. It was the latest installment in a series of webinars highlighting indu...