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Ease of use, more big data than ever, and a proliferation of libraries and toolkits helped machine learning leap ahead for many Until recently, machine learning was an esoteric discipline, used only ...

In some ways, Java was the key language for machine learning and AI before Python stole its crown. Important pieces of the data science ecosystem, like Apache Spark, started out in the Java universe.