I feel as if the end of the year is always conference season for me because my summers are usually jam packed with travel since that is the only time of year my wife has off. I missed the Databricks conference in San Francisco this year because of that, but made up for it in the last quarter by attending various other events and even a two day “Databricks World Tour” event in New York City.
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I’d never heard of the DBTA Data Summit until this year. Apparently this is the 9th one, so you’d think I would have heard of it by now, seeing that I’ve been in the industry for longer than its existence. I usually attend the bigger conventions each year, but this year due to having booked vacations that I’d much rather be on, I couldn’t attend the normal PASS, Microsoft, or Databricks conferences. I was really excited to see and hear about the developments in the world of Spark in San Francisco, but I wouldn’t be able to make it there this year. After a quick google, Data Summit seemed to be my only choice. So off I went to Boston…
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