2015 Hype Cycle for Advanced Analytics and Data Science

NiFi is a system to process and distribute data - a dataflow lifecycle automation tool that acquires and delivers data across enterprise systems in real time. It supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic.
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Data Science Skills Survey 2015
Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics framework that provides the performance benefits of modern techniques while also providing the flexibility of complex data and dynamic schemas. Arrow grew out of three prevailing trends and business requirements:
Watch out folks - there is a new breed of health analytics firms sprouting like weeds - mining "big data" about you and making broad and bold predictions about your state of health to make workplace decisions.