IBM Industry Development Environment for Apache Spark

IBM Cloud is charting its ways as a hub to help Data Scientists analyze big data quickly and simply using Apache Spark.

The company is focusing henceforth on its new cloud-based development environment for near real-time, high performance analytics, giving data scientists the ability to access and ingest data and deliver insight-driven models to developers. 

Available on the IBM Cloud Bluemix platform, the Data ScienceExperience can provide 250 curated data sets, open source tools and a collaborative workspace to help data scientists uncover and share meaningful insights with developers.

One can observe that, IBM created the Data Science Experience with the goal to extend the speed and agility of Spark to more than two million members of the R community through new contributions to SparkR, SparkSQL and Apache SparkML.

For those are unfamiliar, the Data Science Experience’s open and collaborative environment allows data scientists to accelerate and simplify data ingestion, curation and analysis by bringing together the content, data, models, and open source resources from IBM and others including H2O, RStudio, Jupyter Notebooks on Apache Spark in a single security-rich managed environment.