Take a look at this article on data science. Very insightful.
The biggest impact on data science right now is not coming from a new algorithm or statistical method. It’s coming from Docker containers. Containers solve a bunch of tough problems simultaneously: they make it easy to use libraries with complicated setups; they make your output reproducible; they make it easier to share your work; and they can take the pain out of the Python data science stack. We use Docker containers at the heart of Kaggle Scripts. Playing around with Scripts can give you a sense of what you can do with data science containers. But you can also put them to work on your own computer, and in this post I’ll explain how.
http://blog.kaggle.com/2016/02/05/how-to-get-started-with-data-science-in-containers/
