The Top 5 Big Data Trends for 2018 – Perkbee

Use of big data continued to evolve on all fronts during the past year, including software, hardware, financing and regulation. Some of the big themes included the wider use of artificial intelligence, preparations for impending new European regulation, IPOs of big data companies, the use of data fabric and the increasing popularity of R language. All of these will continue to shape big data well into 2018. This year saw a boom in artificial intelligence thanks to emerging deep-learning technology and techniques that provide better and faster results derived from machine learning. AI is becoming omnipresent not only as a business tool in almost every industry but also in day-to- day activities such are tagging friends in photos or providing reminders when shopping online.