In April, Gil Press posted a list of top 10 hot big data technologies in Forbes Magazine. The technologies being featured as hot were:

• Predictive analytics
• NoSQL databases
• Search and knowledge discovery
• Stream analytics
• In-memory data fabric
• Distributed file stores
• Data virtualization
• Data integration
• Data preparation (automation)
• Data quality

The article came with a cool chart (produced by Forrester Research, and similar to other charts produced by Gartner) :

What do you think are the hottest technologies now? Do you agree with Gil's list?

Personnally, I think that the hottest technologies (related to data science) are:

• Adapting modern predictive algorithms to a distributed architecture
• AI (pattern recognition)
• Deep learning (the interection of AI and machine learning)
• Data science automation
• Leveraging data from sensors (IoT)
• Turning unstructured data into structured data, and data standardization
• Blending multiple predictive models together
• Intensive data and model simulation (Monte-Carlo or Bayesian methods), to study complex systems such as weather, using HPC (high performance computing)

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