HPE's Machine Learning APIs, MIT's Sports Analytics Trends: Big Data Roundup

This week in big data we've got machine learning news from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), an easier way to deal with containers from MapR, an acquisition by Tableau, why your hotel concierge may soon be a robot, and more. Plus, we take a look at the country's least memorable city, and why you may be going there in a few weeks anyway. Let's start with HP Enterprise. The company announced commercial availability for HPE Haven OnDemand, a cloud platform that it said provides advanced machine learning APIs and services that enable enterprises to build data-rich mobile and enterprise applications.