scala.byethebay.io: Xavier Tordoir Interview

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- Xavier Tordoir Data Fellas, Inc. Founder Websitetwitter.com/xtordoir Xavier started his career as a researcher in Experimental Physics and also focused on data processing. Further down the road, he took part in projects in finance, genomics and software development for academic research. During that time, he worked on timeseries, on prediction of biological molecular structures and interactions, and applied Machine Learning methodologies. He developed solutions to manage and process data distributed across data centres. He now founded and works at Data Fellas, a company dedicated to distributed computing and advanced analytics, leveraging Scala, Spark and other distributed technologies like H2O for machine learning. Abstract: Sparkling Water on the Spark Notebook: Interactive Genomes clustering It’s a matter of fact that H2O provides advanced Machine Learning capabilities scaling with large datasets. Also, interoperating between H2O and generic large scale data manipulation frameworks like Apache Spark is of utmost importance to help Data Scientists bring the most efficiency on the table, this is where Sparkling Water is shining. The last stone of the edifice is then to work interactively on data from a single environment, allowing the data scientist to share his results and code. We present here the Spark Notebook working with Sparkling Water to bring the valua…