The document provides an overview of the machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data (MAD) landscape in 2021. It maps out categories of companies and technologies across the MAD ecosystem, including areas like finance & investing, incubators & schools, data resources, machine learning platforms, computer vision, natural language processing, analytics infrastructure, databases, and applications across various industries. The landscape contains over 250 categories with thousands of companies and open source projects mapped within the MAD field.

1. MACHINE LEARNING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND DATA (MAD) LANDSCAPE 2021
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FINANCE - INVESTING
RESEARCH
INCUBATORS & SCHOOLS
DATA RESOURCES
DATA SERVICES
OTHER
LOCATION INTELLIGENCE
DATA SOURCES & APIs
AIR / SPACE / SEA
FINANCIAL & ECONOMIC DATA PEOPLE / ENTITIES
OPEN SOURCE
QUERY / DATA FLOW STREAMING &
MESSAGING
ML OPS & INFRA
STAT TOOLS &
LANGUAGES
COLLABORATION SECURITY
FORMAT DATA
ACCESS
DATABASES SEARCH VISUALIZATION
LOGGING & MONITORING
ORCHESTRATION AI / MACHINE LEARNING / DEEP LEARNING
SERVER-
LESS
GRAPH DBs
MPP DBs DATA GOVERNANCE
& ACCESS
CLUSTERSVCS GPU DBS & CLOUD
MGMT / MONITORING
NewSQL DATABASES
DATA INTEGRATION
DATA
WAREHOUSES
DATA LAKES STREAMING /
IN-MEMORY
HADOOP
PRIVACY &
SECURITY
REVERSE ETL
REAL TIME
DATABASES
APPLICATIONS — INDUSTRY
HUMAN CAPITAL
GOV’T &
INTELLIGENCE
EDUCATION REAL ESTATE FINANCE - LENDING
ADVERTISING
MARKETING -
B2B
SALES CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE / SERVICE
MARKETING - B2C
INSURANCE
COMMERCE
PARTNERSHIPS
FINANCE AUTOMATION & RPA
LEGAL REGTECH&
COMPLIANCE
SECURITY
DATA SCIENCE
NOTEBOOKS
DATA SCIENCE
PLATFORMS
COMPUTER VISION SPEECH NLP SYNTHETIC MEDIA
HORIZONTAL AI
ML PLATFORMS
MODEL BUILDING FEATURE STORE DEPLOY-
MENT & PRO-
DUCTION
MODEL
MONITORING
& OBSERVA-
BILITY
DATA GENERATION
& LABELLING
AI HARDWARE AGRICULTURE
HEALTHCARE INDUSTRIAL
LIFE SCIENCES OTHER
TRANSPORTATION
AUGMENTED ANALYTICS
LOG ANALYTICS
SEARCH
BI PLATFORMS
DATA ANALYST PLATFORMS
DATA CATALOG
AND DISCOVERY
METRICS
STORE
QUERY
ENGINE
VISUALIZATION
DATA MARKETPLACES
& DISCOVERY
FRAMEWORKS
NoSQL DATABASES
ETL / ELT /
DATA TRANSFORMATION
RDBMS
DATA QUALITY
STORAGE
DATA OBSERVABILITY
INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATIONS — ENTERPRISE
MACHINE LEARNING & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ANALYTICS
INFRA-
STRUCTURE
DATAOPS