Time-series analysis is becoming mainstream across multiple data-rich industries. The new spark-ts library helps analysts and data scientists focus on business questions, not on building their own algorithms.
Have you ever wanted to build models over measurements coming in every second from sensors across the world? Dig into intra-day trading prices of millions of financial instruments? Compare hourly view statistics across every page on Wikipedia? To do any of these things, you’d need to do a large sequence of measurements over time.