Pentaho adds native Python integration

Aiming to better support machine learning and analytical environments, Pentaho Labs yesterday announced that it has developed a native integration for the Python language through Pentaho Data Integration (PDI).PDI is essentially a portable "data machine" for ETL, which you can deploy as a stand-alone Pentaho cluster or inside a Hadoop cluster through MapReduce or YARN. Will Gorman, vice president of Pentaho Labs at Hitachi subsidiary Pentaho, says the integration means data scientists can now us