Yeah I agree with both of you. The data ... milieu is both very frustrating and very exciting at the moment, in my opinion. There is a ton of noise - lots of vendors with big marketing budgets, endless blog spam, etc. - but also quite a bit of real signal - new or remixed stuff compared with 10 or even 5 years ago, that is really useful.
Yeah the signal/noise ratio is super interesting. The advertising budgets screech real loud, but the interesting things that make it through are real interesting.
What I’m very much hoping is things stay in the current style of “mostly” language independent formats and tools. I’ve written more than enough Python and Scala/Spark and I’ve moved on that I don’t ever want to go back to the abysmal landscape that was “Python or bust”.
