Azure Data Lake Series: Working with JSON - Part 3

Azure Data Lake Series: Working with JSON - Part 3

In part 3, we ratchet up the complexity once more to see how we handle multiple JSON files with schema structures that require extraction at multiple levels (i.e. highly hierarchical). Using U-SQL via Azure Data Lake Analytics we will transform semi-structured data into flattened CSV files to glean insights on the top restaurants across London.

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Getting Started with Speech to Text

Getting Started with Speech to Text

With Bing Speech API, I will show you how to convert human speech (i.e. audio) to text. Bing Speech API is part of the Azure Cognitive Services suite and shares the same speech recognition technology used by other Microsoft products such as Cortana.

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Azure Event Hubs, Stream Analytics and Power BI

Azure Event Hubs, Stream Analytics and Power BI

How to get started with Azure Event Hubs and Stream Analytics. Understand the high-level architecture, key concepts, relationships and then finally dive into a demo where we will stream Bitcoin price data in real-time to Power BI.

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Getting Started with Azure Data Factory

Getting Started with Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory is a fully managed data integration service that allows you to orchestrate and automate data movement and data transformation in the cloud. In Microsoft's latest release, ADF v2 has been updated with visual tools, enabling faster pipeline builds with less code.

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Text Analytics with Microsoft Cognitive Services

Text Analytics with Microsoft Cognitive Services

In this post, I show how easy it is to take advantage of Text Analytics, a cloud-based offering from Microsoft's suite of Cognitive Services. I'll demonstrate language detection, key phrase extraction, and a deeper dive into sentiment analysis parsing 3000 IMDB user reviews.

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Azure Data Lake Series: Working with JSON - Part 2

Azure Data Lake Series: Working with JSON - Part 2

In part 2, we ratchet up the complexity to see how we handle JSON schema structures more commonly encountered in the wild (i.e. an array of objects, dictionaries, nested fields, etc). Using U-SQL via Azure Data Lake Analytics we will transform semi-structured data into flattened CSV files.

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Azure Data Lake Series: Working with JSON - Part 1

Azure Data Lake Series: Working with JSON - Part 1

In part 1, we begin by learning how to set up our environment in order to query JSON documents using U-SQL via Azure Data Lake Analytics, then storing the flattened results into a CSV file back into Azure Data Lake Store.

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