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Optimizing Databricks Workloads

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801819077
Pages 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Anirudh Kala Anirudh Kala
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Anshul Bhatnagar Anshul Bhatnagar
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Sarthak Sarbahi Sarthak Sarbahi
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Azure Databricks
2. Chapter 1: Discovering Databricks 3. Chapter 2: Batch and Real-Time Processing in Databricks 4. Chapter 3: Learning about Machine Learning and Graph Processing in Databricks 5. Section 2: Optimization Techniques
6. Chapter 4: Managing Spark Clusters 7. Chapter 5: Big Data Analytics 8. Chapter 6: Databricks Delta Lake 9. Chapter 7: Spark Core 10. Section 3: Real-World Scenarios
11. Chapter 8: Case Studies 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Learning case studies from the pharmaceutical industry

Data analytics and AI in the pharmaceutical industry play a crucial role in optimizing clinical trials, analyzing patients' behavior, improving logistics, and reducing costs.

Case study 7 – pricing analytics for a pharmaceutical company

The organization required a pricing decision support framework to get insights on gross margin increment based on historical events, the prioritization of SKUs, review indicators, and more. The framework was to be designed in a way so that the smart machine learning models could be transferred and scaled to retain the quality and depth of the information gathered.

A pricing decision framework was developed using machine learning on Azure Databricks, which helped to predict the SKU that should go for pricing review. The system was also capable of predicting the next month's volume, which helped in deciding the correct price for a specific SKU.

The solution architecture...

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