Solving the 'Last Mile' Problem in Data Science

Now a company called Open Data Group is aiming to close that gap with a Docker-based model deployment framework. Open Data Group's CTO Stu Baily describes the company's FastScore framework as an abstraction layer that makes it easier for enterprise IT professionals to deploy data science models into production environments. "We're exclusively focused on bridging analytic professionals, data scientists, quants, model builders, analytic engineers – whatever you want to call them -- and IT for deploying analytic models," he says. "Our solution focuses on getting models deployed as durable, cloud portable assets that will have a very long life time, but can be easily changed, easily migrated." FastScore doesn't care what language or environments the analytic model is developed in.