AI and Data Science Trends at DataWorks Summit - DataWorks Summit

This year, I'm honored to be the chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Science track at the DataWorks Summit in San Jose. Reviewing the submissions and working with the experienced and sharp committee members has been an education in itself, in particular the chance to see what's trending in the open source world. My day-to-day data science work gives me the chance to dig into a few open source projects, but it's hard to find time to get an overview of which topics and projects are hot and worth exploring more deeply. The key topics emerging this year are deep learning, graph-based machine learning and model inference in production. Not surprisingly, the topics and tools around deep learning (DL) still top the list of big trends, and top-notch research in math and computation are driving progress across vision, speech and text.