Episode 64: Cloudera's Tom Reilly and Hilary Mason Talk Machine Learning

When you think of Cloudera, the billion-dollar software company that's virtually a household name, you probably think of a cloud-based, new technology data warehousing company. Sure, but did you know that Cloudera is currently a challenger in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Management Analytic Solutions against the likes of Oracle, Teradata, IBM and Microsoft? In this episode, Jon Prial talks to Tom Reilly, Cloudera's CEO, along with Hilary Mason, one of the top data scientists in the world, whose company, Fast Forward Labs, Cloudera recently acquired. Together they discuss machine learning from both an executive and technical perspective. You'll hear about: -- Where the market is heading in terms of machine learning adoption -- The types of challenges companies face with machine learning -- The future of machine learning -- Data curation