DataScience.com Adds Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil to Advisory Board

"Now more than ever, businesses need to derive value from data," said Patil, who made it his mission to maximize the nation's return on its investment in data during his tenure as U.S. chief data scientist. The work those teams do should be a competitive differentiator, but it often doesn't have the impact that it should. Some common roadblocks are an inability to collaborate, a lack of reproducibility, and not having the right tools at the right time. Companies need a data science platform to overcome these barriers, and that's what DataScience.com Data science platforms are an emerging technology designed to bring together the many disparate tools data scientists rely on, from programming languages like Python or R to deep learning packages like TensorFlow, while also making it easy and efficient to put models into production.