Why is machine learning seeing exponential growth in its communities?

In the world of ML, one of the exciting places to sit is inside GitHub, the developer’s home for software engineering. The rise of GitHub coincided with the rise of ML. In the last decade, you’ve seen the rise of megapopular ML packages on GitHub like TensorFlow and the Fast.ai libraries, to name a couple.

Omoju Miller provides a data-driven historical trace of the rise of applied ML and dives into the product features being built at GitHub to make the lives of maintainers and ML professionals better.