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During my years as a Consultant Data Scientist I have received many requests from my clients to provide frequency distribution reports for their specific business data needs. These reports have been very useful for the company management to make proper business decisions quickly. In this paper I would like to

R is ubiquitous in the machine learning community. Its ecosystem of more than 8,000 packages makes it the Swiss Army knife of modeling applications. Similarly, Apache Spark has rapidly become the big data platform of choice for data scientists. Its ability to perform calculations relatively quickly (due to features like in-memory

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