“…Provisional estimates suggest that nearly 65,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2016, a 21% increase from the previous year and at a level higher than occurred during the peak years for deaths from HIV infection and automobile fatalities.Nearly half of opioid overdose deaths are related to medications obtained legally by prescription, sparking deep concern among leaders in the health care sector. …”

“…The study covers the period 1908 to 1929, when representations of 'Spanish music' in the writings of the hispaniste Henri Collet and other French musicians underwent several transformations, mostly sparked by the need to reformulate French identity during and after the First World War. …”

“…Detailed throughout the course are a number of use cases designed to spark your imagination and exemplify well-architected solutions within the rich and varied ecosystem that is Amazon Web Services. …”

“…In the fields of both nursing and medicine, the idea that a nurse practitioner can, to some degree, serve as a replacement for the physician has sparked heated debates. Perhaps for that reason, despite the progress of the nurse practitioner movement, NPs have been reluctant to speak about themselves and their work, and their own vision of their role has thus remained largely invisible. …”

“…In Ideaship, the sequel to his bestselling book, How to Get Ideas, Jack Foster shifts from how individuals spark their new ideas to how to unleash the creative genius of an entire organization. …”

“…You’ll also learn how to use higher-level tools such as Hive and Spark. Hadoop is a cluster computing technology that has many moving parts, including distributed systems administration, data engineering and warehousing methodologies, software engineering for distributed computing, and large-scale analytics. …”

“….); designing distributed systems (creating real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka, Cassandra and Spark; building better application-factory infrastructures using container-based multitenancy, etc.); and on the pros and cons of microservices (ten sessions on this topic alone). …”

“…But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. …”

“…China and Russia (and Iran and North Korea) spark news stories here by carrying out bold acts of aggression and violating international laws and norms. …”

“…Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright-and its violation-a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advocates. …”

“…The China Story Yearbook 2020: Crisis surveys the multiple crises of the year of the Metal Rat, including the catastrophic mid-year floods that sparked fears about the stability of the Three Gorges Dam. …”

“…The points of view expressed here will prove helpful to those who are trying to frame their own opinions about multiculturalism—and they are guaranteed to spark new debate among those who have already chosen sides…”

“…Understand Hadoop’s architecture from an administrator’s standpoint Create simple and fully distributed clusters Run MapReduce and Spark applications in a Hadoop cluster Manage and protect Hadoop data and high availability Work with HDFS commands, file permissions, and storage management Move data, and use YARN to allocate resources and schedule jobs Manage job workflows with Oozie and Hue Secure, monitor, log, and optimize Hadoop Benchmark and troubleshoot Hadoop…”

“…A single taste of success is all it takes to spark change, but the hard work of following through requires constant vigilance—and a plan. …”

“…The field has grown considerably since then, sparking a need for an updated look at the latest state-of-the-art developments. …”

“…Hadoop & Beyond: Discover tools beyond Hadoop—like Cassandra, Storm, Accumulo, Kafka, and Spark—and how they fit in the data science toolkit. …”

“…The right knowledge combined with the right tools can create an unstoppable force of innovation, and your curiosity is the spark that ignites the flame. Adventures in Arduino gets you started on the right foot, but the path is totally up to you…”

“…They have the gift of harnessing their expertise and their networks to make their innovative thoughts real and replicable, sparking sustainable change and even creating movements around their ideas. …”

“…Raoul-Gabriel Urma is CEO of Cambridge Spark, a learning community for data scientists and developers in the UK. …”

“…Skill building sessions on Python, R, Apache Spark, Kafka, Kudu, and Cassandra delivered by Hadoop specialists at Dato, Google, Continuum Analytics, and Confluent. …”