Educational institutions, from primary through higher ed, are trying to adjust to a world where learning is delivered virtually. Unfortunately, most institutions are built on legacy infrastructure defined by on-premises applications, platforms and data warehouses that are disjointed, difficult to integrate and hard to scale. Because of these limitations, institutions have lagged behind the curve to leverage their vast amounts of data to drive...

Apache Spark, a powerful open source processing engine built around speed, ease of use, and sophisticated analytics, has become the de facto standard for building big data applications. However, realizing the value and benefits of Spark on its own can be challenging, the founders of Spark created Databricks. The Databricks Unified Analytics Platform accelerates innovation by unifying data science, engineering, and business. Not only does it ru...