According to a popular framework called Gartner Hype Cycle, there are five phases in the process of the proliferation and adoption of technologies:
- Technology trigger
- Peak of inflated expectations
- Trough of disillusionment
- Slope of enlightenment
- Plateau of productivity
The following link contains a chart that shows different technologies and the stage they are at on the technology adoption curve https://blogs-images.forbes.com/gartnergroup/files/2012/09/2012Emerging-Technologies-Graphic4.gif.
As can be seen, Predictive Analytics has already reached the steady plateau of productivity, which is where the optimum and stable return on investment can be extracted from a technology. Since pandas is an essential component of most predictive analytics initiatives, it is safe to say that pandas has reached the plateau of productivity.
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