Posit + Databricks: Improved productivity for your data teams

Databricks and Posit are partnering to help professional data teams do more with the power of their favorite data science tools seamlessly integrated with the Databricks Lakehouse.

Our partnership aims to help Python and R developers build and share valuable data-driven content using familiar, state-of-the-art tools that maximize their productivity, all while leveraging the data processing and governance capabilities of Databricks.

In this joint event, James Blair, Product Manager of Cloud Integrations at Posit, and Rafi Kurlansik, Lead Product Specialist from Databricks, will be sharing a live demo covering how data teams can build and share data-driven content more easily with the joint power of Posit and Databricks, along with an exciting look into the future of the partnership.

Presenters:



James Blair is a Product Manager at Posit, focusing on integrations between Posit software and Cloud partners. He has a background in statistics and data science and enjoys finding ways to improve the user experience for Posit users. When not spending time with his wife and five children, he can usually be found riding a bike or eating funnel cake, sometimes simultaneously.



Rafi Kurlansikis a Lead Product Specialist at Databricks where he specializes in Data Science, Machine Learning and the Developer Experience. He has also helped many customers scale their R workloads with Spark. In his spare time he enjoys gardening with native plants, cooking up a storm, and long video game sessions with his three children.