Summary:  The largest companies utilizing the most data science resources are moving rapidly toward more integrated advanced analytic platforms.  The features they are demanding are evolving to promote speed, simplicity, quality, and manageability.  This has some interesting implications for open source R and Python widely taught in schools but significantly less necessary with these more sophisticated platforms.   We continue to be dazzled, and perhaps rightly so, by the advances in deep learning and question answering machines like Watson.  And […]