Last week’s post on SAS provoked numerous comments on this blog, and over on Hacker News. Here are some excerpts. I’ve edited for length and grammar. Feel free to read the originals. SAS employee Scott Mongeau writes: Journeying through the vast graveyard of open source vanity projects I come in on as a mop-up-agent on in any given month, one
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Never underestimate the power of analyst relations. Each year, SAS invites industry analysts to a posh resort and shows them shiny things that most SAS users will never see. Steamboat Springs used to be the destination; this year, the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida got the nod. Naples is so much nicer in February. The broiled branzino served in the Terrazza,
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Gartner just released the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. You can get a copy directly from Gartner if you’re a client, or you can get one here, courtesy of RapidMiner. Here are the 2017 and 2018 MQs side by side: Here are my comments on the 2017 and 2016 MQs. For five observations about the 2018 MQ,
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A little over a year ago, on February 17, 2017, the Houston Chronicle reported that the University of Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Center had halted an AI project for cancer diagnostics. The story revealed that MD Anderson spent $62 million over four years to build a system called the Oncology Expert Advisor (OEA), based on IBM Watson. As envisioned by its champions,
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This is the time of year when everyone looks to the year ahead. Here are five four things in data science and machine learning that are utterly and completely predictable in 2018. Data Science Matures In the Pleistocene Era of Data Science, there were Heroes and Hackers: lone souls working on ad hoc projects with Pig, Hive, Mahout, Java, and
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Adapted from a post originally published on the Cloudera VISION Blog. If your organization collects data about citizens of the European Union (EU), you probably already know about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR defines and strengthens data protection for consumers and harmonizes data security rules within the EU. The European Parliament approved the measure on April 27, 2016.
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This appeared in my Twitter feed recently: Challenge…accepted. You can find a copy of SAS’ report here, and Matt Asay’s excellent analysis here. Grab your popcorn; here are four quick points. (1) For SAS, it’s progress. The report opens with this: Open source technologies, like Hadoop, R, and Python, have been vital to the spread of big data. That’s quite an
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