by Angela Guess
Alex Woodie recently wrote for Datanami, “It’s no surprise that leaders in the field are… optimistic about the future of big data. ‘Despite incredible advances over the past few years, we’ve barely scratched the surface on the full potential of analytics,’ says Scott Zoldi, chief analytics officer at FICO. Zoldi sees several analytic types making inroads in 2016, including streaming analytics, next-gen antivirus tools, and ‘lifestyle analytics’ like predictive grocery ordering and remote medicine. ‘We will see a turning point for data science’ in 2016, says Michael Brodie, a Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Brodie says we’ll finally overcome the ‘false promises of trivialized point-and-click, self-service tools’ and begin to build predictive apps that target more domain-specific problems.”
Woodie goes on, “Another big data optimist is Michael Benedict, the chief product officer at Progress Software Corp. ‘This first wave of big data focused on the infrastructure stack–storage, scale and integration,’ Benedict says. ‘It’s the next wave of technology that I’m most excited about, because it will make big data mainstream and consumable by everyone.’ There is bound to be some consolidation among the software and infrastructure companies enabling big data, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The past five years have been marked by a rapid period of investment and innovation, and the invisible hand of the market has a way of sorting things out.”
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