This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2016 http://gotochgo.com Dean Wampler - Big Data Architect at Lightbend, O'Reilly Author ABSTRACT It was true that, until pretty recently, the language of choice to manipulate and to make sense out of the data for Data Scientists was mainly one of Python, R or Matlab. This lead to split in the communities and duplication of efforts in languages offering a similar set [...] Download slides and read the full abstract here: http://gotocon.com/chicago-2016/presentation/Scala:%20The%20Unpredicted%20Lingua%20Franca%20for%20Data%20Science https://twitter.com/gotochgo https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference http://gotocon.com