H2O integration

In Stata 17, we have been experimenting with connecting to H2O, a scalable and distributed open-source machine-learning and predictive analytics platform. You can read more about H2O here.

With the integration of H2O, you can start, connect to, and query an H2O cluster from Stata. In addition, we provide a suite of commands to manipulate data (H2O frames) on the cluster. For example, you can create new H2O frames by importing data files or loading Stata's current dataset. You can also split, combine, and query H2O frames from within Stata.

Although this is still in the experimental stage for us, we want to make it available to our users to try out. On the other hand, because it is an experimental feature, syntax and features are subject to change. When using Stata commands that provide access to a given feature of H2O, keep in mind that that is an H2O feature. Though you may be accessing it via a Stata command, what it does is up to H2O and is outside of Stata.

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