1. As a result, analytical applications can now be far simpler and need only query the database for analytic results.

2. New machine learning platform enables data scientists to automate the creation, training and deployment of operational analytic models.

3. They will have to rethink how they analyze problems and how they teach with fundamentally different assumptions and new analytic tools.

4. Instead, the idea is that its data and analytic skills could be useful to companies and cities that operate large transportation networks.

5. This world also offered the opportunity to present a neat and tidy analytic model of how businesses do and should operate.

6. And there is the growing number of vendors that are embedding Spark within their analytic tools, streaming products, and development tools.