Philippe Nieuwbourg, who ran the world's famous "Informatics Museum" at the time, graciously allowed me use one of his sets to tape it. The video was called "Business Intelligence 2020". And its goal was to recap some of the community's predictions for where the Data and Analytics space would be by 2020. At the time, some of the biggest market players hadn't gone public yet. In fact, the industry hadn't even embraced "The Cloud", "Big Data" or even "A.I."... How much the world has changed.

Philippe Nieuwbourg, who ran the world's famous "Informatics Museum" at the time, graciously allowed me use one of his sets to tape it. The video was called "Business Intelligence 2020". And its goal was to recap some of the community's predictions for where the Data and Analytics space would be by 2020. At the time, some of the biggest market players hadn't gone public yet. In fact, the industry hadn't even embraced "The Cloud", "Big Data" or even "A.I."... How much the world has changed.

There was growing interest in machine learning among attendees of this year's Strata & Hadoop World conference in New York. Many vendors are responding by rushing products to market even before they are ready. Information Management spoke with Sisense's head of product Guy Levy-Yurista about why all the interest. Information Management: What are the most common themes that you are hearing among conference participants? Guy Levy-Yurista: "Machine learning was top of mind for a number of attendees at the show. There were several exhibitors who were not only talking about the potential of machine learning, but who were actually presenting narrow, but effective, machine learning products – even before they were ready to go to market. "The machine learning'buzz' has really penetrated the data analytics market, and everyone is trying to show they have a play so they can rise to the top of ongoing conversations.