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Emerging technologies

Emerging technologies

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Emerging technologies

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- [Narrator] Just like many other technology fields, the discipline of data science is dynamic and constantly changing. Therefore, it is a must for a data scientist to keep refreshing their knowledge, to stay relevant. One of the prominent new trends is the convergence among cloud computing, big data analytics and learning. In fact, it's no longer necessary to provision private resources housed in your own organization to deploy a distributed computing solution, like Hadoop. Various online retail data services including warehouses, mining and analytics are already available in the cloud through vendors like Amazon, IBM, Google and so on. This makes it cheaper for companies to use data science techniques to solve their business problems, which in turn increases the demand for data scientists. Some of other salient features making these cloud based data science more attractive are their scalability and ease of use. A…

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