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Databricks crossed $350M run rate in Q3, up from $200M one year ago

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Ghodsi took over as CEO in 2016 after serving as the company’s VP of engineering. Or, perhaps a company wants to find patterns in some economic data. How do they find that information? He’s also a co-founder.

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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

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A few months ago, I wrote about the differences between data engineers and data scientists. An interesting thing happened: the data scientists started pushing back, arguing that they are, in fact, as skilled as data engineers at data engineering. I agree; learn as much as you can.

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5 machine learning essentials nontechnical leaders need to understand

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We’re living in a phenomenal moment for machine learning (ML), what Sonali Sambhus , head of developer and ML platform at Square, describes as “the democratization of ML.” ML recruiting strategy. Recruiting for ML comes with several challenges. Secondly, finding the level of experience required can be challenging.