Machine learning: From science project to business plan

No longer was it an esoteric discipline commanded by the few, the proud, the data scientists. Now it was, in theory, everyone's business. Machine learning's power and promise, and all that surrounded and supported it, moved more firmly into the enterprise development mainstream. That movement revolved around three trends: new and improved tool kits for machine learning, better hardware (and easier access to it), and more cloud-hosted, as-a-service variants of machine learning that provided both open source and proprietary tools. Once upon a time, if you wanted to implement machine learning in an app, you had to roll the algorithms yourself.