Machine learning on machine learning software: It's closer than you think #BigDataSV

As the tech world pivots on game-changing applications, data scientists rise to the occasion. Such is the case with Holden Karau, principal software engineer of Big Data at IBM and coauthor of Learning Spark. When asked about the current renovations within Spark, Karau said she sees this time as an "opportunity to get rid of dead weight" by streamlining certain processes. For example, she cited getting functional and relative queries to talk to each other within Spark. Two area of expansion include sequencing and machine learning.