Machine learning algorithms set to transform industries

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) may sound intimidating, but Dean said enterprises don't need the technical resources of a company like Google to get started. There are now lots of options that let businesses bring their own data to machine learning platforms that contain pretrained models or algorithms that organizations can train themselves. Google offers such a service, and the Spark data processing engine contains a library of machine learning algorithms. Such offerings lower the bar to entry. Other speakers at the Spark conference agreed the time is ripe for machine learning applications across various vertical markets.