Sep 23–26, 2019

Jordan Volz
Senior Data Scientist, Dataiku

Jordan Volz is a senior data scientist at Dataiku, where he helps customers design and implement ML applications. Previously, Jordan specialized in big data technologies as a systems engineer at Cloudera and enterprise search technology as a technical consultant at Autonomy, frequently working with large financial organizations in the US and Canada. He holds degrees from Bard College and the University of Amherst, and he’s academically trained in pure mathematics.

Sessions

4:35pm–5:15pm Thursday, September 26, 2019

Location: 1E 07/08

Spark on Kubernetes for data science

Data Science, Machine Learning, & AI

Jordan Volz (Dataiku)

Spark on Kubernetes is a winning combination for data science that stitches together a flexible platform harnessing the best of both worlds. Jordan Volz gives a brief overview of Spark and Kubernetes, the Spark on Kubernetes project, why it’s an ideal fit for data scientists who may have been dissatisfied with other iterations of Spark in the past, and some applications. Read more.