I've found that people in industry are often unaware of recent discoveries in academia (even if they themselves were once academics). Unfortunately most of the

I've found that people in industry are often unaware of recent discoveries in academia (even if they themselves were once academics). Unfortunately most of the top journals of interest to datascientists are locked behind a paywall, but sometimes Google Scholar is able to find a free copy scraped from some academic's personal site (the "All N versions" link is usually helpful unless the paper was published in an ACM or IEEE journal - those guys seem to hunt down carelessly posted papers on people's private sites).