AI is mainstream and its applications are limitless; here is the AI forecast for 2017 from some of the experts in the industry. Source: AI Forecast for 2017

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"propose one possible taxonomy of what a data scientist does, in roughly chronological order: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, Model, and iNterpret" Source: dataists » A Taxonomy of Data Science