Kaggle's tagline is "We're making data science a sport".
Prior Knowledge Prior Knowledge is launching Veritable, a predictive database that makes data science as easy as SQL.
Driverless AI is the latest product from H2O.ai aimed at lowering the barrier to making data science work in a corporate context.
"The proliferation of platforms and media on those platforms has actually made data science a much more difficult — but also more interesting — job," Nguyen said.
Within this voluminous quantity of data lie insights that could enable companies to gain a competitive edge and provide a better consumer experience, which is why many organizations have now made data science a top priority.
"SQL is stateless so it isn't hard to work with, but making data science serverless is hard because it has states," Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi explained to me in an interview.
13688_2016_89_MOESM1_ESM.pdf Quantifying decision making for data science: from data acquisition to modeling (pdf).
As Kaggle founder Anthony Goldbloom tells me, "we're making big data science into a sport".
"Here, we have four teams with distinct and interdependent functions that make up our data science and analytics practice: data engineering, quantitative analytics, machine learning, and content science," he told me, sharing some slides that have made the rounds at data science meetups.
Since the connections that Memoir has to make involve more data science than your typical photo-sharing app, it can take advantage of its deeper understanding of the who, what, when, where and other contexts (e.g. calendar events) to help you better search through your photos, allowing for advanced queries like that time I was with John and Jane in San Francisco, for example.
