Databricks is an Apache Spark based analytics platform available as a first party service on Azure. Optimised for Microsoft’s various cloud services, Azure Databricks integrates deeply with Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Services, Power BI and more.
Read MoreAzure IoT Central is a fully managed SaaS (software-as-a-service) offering, that aims to lower the barrier of entry by abstracting much of the complexity and technical debt, typically required to deploy and manage an IoT solution in the enterprise.
Read MoreBy tapping into the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities of Microsoft’s Computer Vision API (part of the Cognitive Services suite), I will show how you can extract text from images.
Read MoreStream sensor data into the cloud. Using an IoT device (Raspberry Pi), temperature readings will be sent to Azure IoT Hub, consumed by Stream Analytics and visualised in real-time by Power BI.
Read MoreLearn how to build a Raspberry Pi temperature sensor. All you need outside of the Raspberry Pi itself is a couple of jumper cables, a breakout board, a DS18B20 one-wire digital sensor and a laptop for remote access.
Read MoreExtract intent and key pieces of information from text with LUIS (Language Understanding Intelligent Service), a machine learning based offering that falls under Microsoft's Cognitive Services suite. Natural language understanding is a key component in enabling developers to engineer features out of text (i.e. creating data out of data) as well as building conversation based interfaces.
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreExplore how Azure Cosmos DB can be used to store, query and traverse graphs using Python and the Gremlin query language of Apache TinkerPop.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn this post, we explore how to use Python to perform Text Analytics, creating data out of data. Using content from Donald Trump's twitter feed, we get an insight into the President's grasp on the English language.
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