IBM opens machine learning hub in Banaglore to provide training in ML, data science

BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM today announced the opening of its first Machine Learning (ML) Hub in India. The hub, located in Bamngalore, is a physical space for organizations to visit for hands-on training on ML.

Machine Learning is gaining popularity to deal with increasingly complex data and analysis problems. By 2018, 75pc of enterprise and ISV development globally will include cognitive/Al or machine learning functionality in at least one application, including all business analytics tools.

The new hub adds to the company’s growing stable of ML Hubs, currently operating in Toronto, San Jose, California, at IBM’s Silicon Valley Lab, Beijing, and Boblingen, Germany.

Through the hubs, data professionals, business analysts and engineers work with IBM data science experts to understand and master the leading tools, technologies and techniques needed to visualize, analyze and interpret data.

IBM ML allows data scientists to automate the creation, training and deployment of operational analytic models that will support:

Languages such as Scala, Java, and Python

Popular Machine Learning framework like  such as Apache SparkML, TensorFlow, H2O

Any transactional data type

IBM experts also help visitors build and test rapid, scalable prototypes for fast deployment of their models on their organizations’ enterprises. The hub also provides a platform for like-minded enterprises to collaborate and transform their data science processes.

“IBM Machine Learning hub reiterates our mission to partner and prepare enterprises for the cognitive era by unleashing the potential of machine learning through models that are constantly improving by analyzing new data to generate real-time results which benefit businesses,” said Gaurav Sharma, Vice President - IBM India Software Labs and Growth – IBM India and South Asia.