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Sean Kandel: Machine learning and statistical tools are becoming commoditized
“Machine learning and even statistical tools are becoming kind of commoditized.”
Sean Kandel: Data preparation is the primary bottleneck in analytics
“We kind of think this is the new bottleneck in analytics. Broadly speaking now is, you know, what people refer to as the data preparation space.”
Kandel: Hand-coding tools remain the most common data preparation method
“So probably still today the most common is using kind of hand coding tools so programming languages, Python, Spark SAS and so on.”
Kandel: Analytics tools lag behind software development in collaboration
“I'd say generally if you look at kind of software development process, there's been a lot more in terms of development there and aiding kind of collaboration across users and teams. So I think generally speaking with analytics, there's still a long way to go.”
Kandel: Automated metadata capture is essential to scale analytics efficiency
“I think one way to kind of really speed up this loop and make it much more efficient is instead of kind of relying on others to kind of manually capture metadata and manually leverage it, having systems that automatically capture it and automatically leverage …”
Trifacta CTO: No data prep algorithm will ever be 100% correct
“We don't feel that the you know, algorithms or predictions that we provide are ever going to be a hundred percent correct, or any algorithm will be.”