By Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggets. Big Data surged in popularity both as a field and as a popular buzzword around 2011. However, lately is has been losing its luster and Gartner in 2015 removed Big Data from its Hype Curve, replacing it with Machine Learning.
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Dr Usama Fayyad delivered the keynote address at the Aegis Data Science Congress 2017 held in Mumbai from 5 to 8 June. DSC an initiative of Aegis School o