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The massive deployment of sensors, controllers, and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices make up the Industrial IoT (IIoT) can produce such massive volumes of data that superlatives like big data no longer describe the challenge. There is a vast opportunity for data scientists to discover associations and understanding from the patterns and trends within IIoT data. When the right IIoT data is made available for synthesis and analysis, the revealed associations, patterns, and trends can fuel the development of intelligent software applications and the advanced cyber-physical systems that define Industry 4.0.