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It's all subjective, but as a data analyst I'm excited about probabilistic databases. Short version: load your sample data sets, provide a some priors, and then query the population as if you had no missing data. Most developed implementation is BayesDB[1], but there's a lot of ideas coming out of a number of places right now. [1] http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/bayesdb/
2) More understanding of the "bio psycho social" model of mental illness, with better coordination across different agencies to prevent suicide.
My field is web development, and, to be honest, the most exciting thing going on is that more people are starting to complain about the complexity of development. Hopefully this will lead to people slowing down and learning how to write better web software. As an example, one survey ( https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2016-... ) put the number of developers who don't use any test tools at almost…
This also brings me to Traefik, one of the coolest projects I have come across in the last months.
Traefik + DC/OS + CI/CD is what allows developers to create value for the business in hours and not in days or weeks.
Edit: there is a lot to be excited about these days
That in the past people used to deceive (delude) themselves and other fools around them with theology, speculations and metaphysics, today they do the same with statistics, probability and abstract models.
I find it difficult to deny the achievement of tangible progress that is implied by, for example, the self-driving car.
Lambdas are lightweight function calls that can be spawned on demand in sub-millisecond time and don't need a server that's constantly running. They can replace most server code in many settings, e.g. when building REST APIs that are backed by cloud services such as Amazon DynamoDB.
I've heard many impressive things about this way of designing your architecture, and it seems to be able to dramatically reduce cost in some cases, sometimes by more than 10 times.
The drawback is that currently there is a lot of vendor lock-in, as Amazon is (to my knowledge) the only cloud service that offers lambda functions with a really tight and well-working integration with their other services (this is important because on their own lambdas are not very useful).
[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Lightning_Network
[1] https://lightning.network/
[2] https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizardry/mimblewimbl...
[3] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/mimblewimble-how-a-stri...