We are now in the era of big data 2.0, as defined by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett in Data Science for Business. There’s growing interest in predictive analytics solutions powered by machine learning. As InsightsOne’s CEO Waqar Hasan puts it: “Predictive is the ‘killer app’ for big data.” Quite interestingly, McKinsey & Company predicted a shortage of machine learning talent in the coming years, and at the same time, we started to see services that made machine learning and predictive analytics accessible to the masses. We’re seeing more and more of these services: Apigee launched one last April, just a couple of months after buying InsightsOne.
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