Overstock.com Achieves Data Science at Scale with Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform

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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Databricks , provider of the leading Unified Analytics Platform and founded by the team who created Apache Spark™, today announced that Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK ) has chosen Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform to enable an enhanced customized shopping experience that drives conversions and customer lifetime value.Databricks provides a serverless cloud infrastructure that enables Overstock.com’s data science team to more efficiently build, train and deploy machine learning models.With Databricks, data scientists at Overstock.com can build, validate and deploy machine learning models into production in fast iterations while leveraging a variety of libraries and toolkits in addition to native Spark.Common Shares (NASDAQ: OSTK ) / Series A Preferred (Medici Ventures’ tZERO platform: OSTKP) / Series B Preferred (OTCQX:OSTBP) is an online retailer based in Salt Lake City, Utah that sells a broad range of products at low prices, including furniture , décor , rugs , bedding , and home improvement .The company also makes it easier for its users to focus on their data by providing a fully managed, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure that reduces operational complexity and total cost of ownership.

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