With every industry generating massive amounts of data – the need to crunch data requires more powerful and sophisticated programming tools like Python and R language.

Spark is everywhere, including in IBM’s cloud infrastructure. Read up on using Spark for Twitter analysis, and how it fits in with Watson and BlueMix.

MIT researchers have developed what they refer to as the Data Science Machine, which combines feature engineering and an end-to-end data science pipeline into a system that beats nearly 70% of humans in competitions. Is this game-changing?