Category: Analytics

• October 10, 2017

  Installing Apache Zeppelin 0.7.3 in HDP 2.5.3 with Spark and Spark2 Interpreters

  Background As a recent client requirement I needed to propose a solution in order to add spark2 as interpreter to zeppelin in HDP (Hortonworks Data Platform) 2.5.3 The first hurdle is, HDP 2.5.3 comes with zeppelin 0.6.0 which does not support spark2, which was included as a technical preview. Upgrade the HDP version was not…
• November 14, 2016

  Apache Zeppelin installation on Windows 10

  Disclaimer: I am not a Windows or Microsoft fan, but I am a frequent Windows user and it’s the most common OS I found in the Enterprise everywhere. Therefore, I decided to try Apache Zeppelin on my Windows 10 laptop and share my experience with you. The behavior should be similar in other operating systems.…
• July 8, 2016

  Introduction to R Services and R client – SQL Server 2016

  Introduction After some time using R and SQL server as two different tools (not 100% true because I already have imported data from SQL Server into R Studio), now Microsoft is offering as part of the SQL Server 2016 R services. That seems to be very promising, especially for Microsoft BI professionals. One of the…