Gartner recently published its 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. You can secure a copy of the report from Gartner if you are a client, or read it for free here, courtesy of DataRobot. (Registration required.) Here’s how Gartner positioned the 17 vendors that made it into the MQ: Back in October, I wrote my predictions for
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The die is cast. Last month, Gartner selected 16 vendors to include in its 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning. Now, as Gartner prepares to publish the report early next year, I think it will be fun to make some predictions about how each vendor will fare. Some ground rules. I’m not going to talk about DataRobot,
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Forrester just published two “Wave” reports for predictive analytics and machine learning. The first, covering “multi-modal” solutions, is available here for free. A second report, covering notebook-based solutions, is available here (registration required.) Forrester plans to publish a third report, covering automated machine learning vendors, in 2019. Kudos to Forrester for understanding the diversity of the data science tools market.
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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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Forrester recently published the Wave™ for Predictive Analytics And Machine Learning Solutions. You can purchase a copy from Forrester for $2,495, or get a free copy here. When Forrester last delivered this analysis in 2015, they called it the Wave™ for Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions. So, I guess that Big Data is “out” and machine learning is “in.” The chart below shows the
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Gartner recently released its 2017 Magic Quadrant for Data Science Platforms. You can get a copy directly from Gartner if you’re a client, or you can get one for free here, courtesy of SAS. The figure below shows the 2016 and 2017 MQs side by side, with changes shown in red. Here are my comments about the 2016 MQ, written last
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This post is an excerpt adapted from my book, Disruptive Analytics, available soon from Apress and Amazon. (Note: under my contract with Apress I am legally obligated to link to their site, but it’s not yet possible to order the book there. Use the Amazon link if you want the book.) The analytics business is booming. Technology consultant IDC estimates total
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This is a revised and expanded version of a story that first appeared in the weekly roundup for February 15. Gartner publishes its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms. You can get a free copy here from RapidMiner (registration required.) The report is a muddle that mixes up products in different categories that don’t compete with one another,
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Last week, Forrester published its 2015 “Wave” report for Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions. You can pay $2,495 and buy it directly from Forrester (here), or you can get the same report for free from SAS (here). The report is inaptly named, as it commingles software that scales to Big Data (such as Alpine Chorus) with software that does not
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