As we recounted a few weeks back, we once shared a flight with an aspiring data scientist who was shopping for colleges who preferred SAS for the completeness of its analytic programming functions.

The Apache Zeppelin analytical notebook is one of the hottest new open-source tools for programmers and data analysts, and now its developers have $4.1 million in new funding to develop it. ZEPL, ...

Maybe you want to avoid burning up a bunch of cash on Databricks, the cloud-based Spark machine learning and analytics platform. Or maybe you need a data source or language it doesn’t support. Or ...