Diapers & Beer: How Spark Helps Businesses Access Machine Learning

Apache Spark is a leading platform for large-scale data mining, batch processing and stream processing. Touted as a "lightning-fast unified analytics engine," Spark modernizes data analytics with machine learning to help businesses uncover patterns at new levels. Best of all, Spark is included within many other software solutions, so this powerful tool may already be part of your modern data analytics infrastructure. From its inception at the AMPLab at U.C. Berkeley in 2009, Spark has become one of the key big data distributed processing frameworks in the world. It's used by banks, telecommunications companies, games companies, governments, and nearly all major tech giants, including Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.