Machine Learning for Streaming Data with Python

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Streaming Data

Streaming analytics is one of the new hot topics in data science. It proposes an alternative framework to the more standard batch processing, in which we are no longer dealing with datasets on a fixed time of treatment, but rather we are handling every individual data point directly upon reception.

This new paradigm has important consequences for data engineering, as it requires much more robust and, particularly, much faster data ingestion pipelines. It also imposes a big change in data analytics and machine learning.

Until recently, machine learning and data analytics methods and algorithms were mainly designed to work on entire datasets. Now that streaming has become a hot topic, it becomes more ...