IBM i Gets An Influx Of Machine Learning Tooling

July 25, 2018 Alex Woodie

Thanks to the new RPM and Yum open source software delivery methods unleased by IBM earlier this year, IBM i shops can now run the latest in Python-based machine learning tools, including NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and Scikit-Learn.

Interest in using Python to build machine learning models has exploded in recent years, and we’re now at the point where Python is considered to be the predominant language for doing data science, followed closely by R, which is taught more in academic settings.

While the capability to train or run a machine learning model isn’t generally the number one requirement for organizations …