Google to acquire Kaggle
Q. Google has announced the acquisition of which data science startup on March 2017?- Published on 14 Mar 17a. Kaggle
b. Paxata
c. Qubole
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Kaggle
Tech giant Google has announced the acquisition of Kaggle, a start-up that hosts a number of data scientists, for an undisclosed amount at the Cloud Next 2017 conference.
Founded in 2010, Kaggle is home to the world’s largest community of data scientists and machine-learning enthusiasts.
More than 8 lakh data experts use Kaggle to explore, analyse and understand the latest updates in machine learning and data analytics.
Kaggle and Google Cloud will continue to support machine learning training and deployment services while offering the community the ability to store and query large datasets.
Making Google Cloud technology available to our community will allow Google to offer access to powerful infrastructure, scalable training and deployment services and the ability to store and query large data sets.
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are other data science and analytics companies.
