Just about every player in the Big Data and analytics game was in New York last week at the Strata + Hadoop World conference, to showcase their latest technologies.
Over 7,000 people attended the event where keynote speakers, including White House chief data scientist DJ Patil, laid out their visions for where machine learning, analytics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles and smart cities will be taking us in the near future.
Here are a few of my highlights from the event and some of the major announcements from key players.
DJ Patil spoke about how during his time so far as the U.S.’s first chief data scientist, his mission has been to “responsibly unleash the power of data to benefit all Americans.”
He spoke about how Big Data and analytics is helping to reduce damage by opioid abuse, and the importance of openness.
When the president first started in office there was about 10 [open] data sets put out there, now there are about 2,000”, he said. Whatever you think of Barack Obama’s presidency that is an impressive achievement, as it means that anyone from major corporations to armchair data scientists can now use data to develop new strategies and technologies to harness it.
Martin Hall, chief data scientist for Big Data solutions at Intel, told his audience that the explosion of interest and activity in Big Data means that “we now have the data, the analytics and the compute power to deliver more than insights – we can enable intelligence.”
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SOURCE: Forbes
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