Databricks has announced a major new update to the popular data analytics cluster framework Apache Spark, adding support for the R statistical programming language in an effort to make life easier for ...

After an absence of about a year, and a stint as Research Director at the now defunct Gigaom Research, I've returned to ZDNet to cover Big Data. The year went by pretty quickly, but a number of things ...

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science tools offered by the Apache Software Foundation. Developed and supported by the community, they continue to grow in popularity ...