Recently, most of the researchers are working under the inspiration of good results via deep learning algorithms. You did not specified any particular area of deep learning, I would therefore mention you : https://bda-hull.github.io/
Colleagues I have talked to strongly suggest making use of open source options, there are communities or forums associated with most specific platforms, e.g. python (https://www.python.org/community/forums/) or TensorFlow (https://www.tensorflow.org/community).