Enterprise data science – machine learning and AI

Data science solutions have matured rapidly over the past 4 - 5 years, similar to the movement in other areas of data science such as NoSQL, Hadoop, and other data mining solutions. Although many of the prior database systems also incorporate key features of data science, such as machine learning and others, this section highlights some of the solutions at a high level that are primarily used for machine learning and/or AI, as opposed to data management.

Indeed, the distinction between Big Data products and data science products has become blurred, since products that were originally intended for Big Data handling have incorporated key features of data science, and vice versa.

The R programming language

R, as we have seen in prior chapters, is an environment originally designed for statistical programming. It emerged out of a project at the University of New Zealand, where Ross Ihanka and Robert Gentleman developed R as a variation of the S...