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Pies, Lies and AIs

Exploring the world of data and organisational intransigence

Documentation the easy way

So a slight departure from Spark (sort of) for this post, but I wanted to look at one of the most commonly overlooked aspects of building...

Using Spark to read from Excel

People have data in Excel, so lets have a look at how we can read that data using Spark

Just one more column, what could go wrong?

Sometimes, when you go scanning through the documentation for Spark, you come across notes about certain functions. These tend to offer...

Why leave bad data to chance?

Something that we often see as Spark jobs are moved into production is that handling of bad data is either ignored, or a lot of effort...

Pivot, Step, Pivot, Twist, Un-pivot

Getting data into a good shape is a key part to Data Engineering, and we often get data in all sorts of shape and quality

Making development easier in Databricks

It's now easier to see the documentation directly in the notebook, rather than having to call "help" or go searching the Internet

Bringing Azure Databricks to Security Data

Back in October 2020 I had the amazing opportunity to with with Richard on a small project where we wanted to speed up processing of CEF...

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