Machine Learning as a Service: How Data Science Is Hitting the Masses

A good vendor should be able to explain both how they manage data and how they solve your specific business problem. Iyengar suggests asking some questions to see if a predictive company will be a good fit: "Ask a [ML provider] how they handle unclean data. Their answer will show you how well they know their work. You can also ask about the variety of algorithms they use, since they should have a good variety of fairly robust algorithms. They should be comfortable explaining how they deploy a model structure, what their web stack looks like, and how that will work with customer architecture."