What lies ahead for data in 2018

See Ben Lorica's video "Trends in AI, Data Science, and Big Data" on Safari for a recap of research initiatives and movements in 2017. Here's what we expect to see--or see more of--in the data world in 2018. Graphs and time series have been a crucial part of the explosion in big data. These new analytic and visualization tools will help product groups devise new offerings, especially for use cases in security and fraud detection. In 2016, I started hearing companies express interest in data sharing platforms, and startups have now begun to build data exchanges to allow companies to share data across organizational boundaries, while protecting privacy and IP.