In his recent keynote Google CEO Sundar Pichai said In fact, when I look at where computing is headed, it's clear to me that we are evolving from a mobile-first to an AI-first world. Devices like Amazon's Echo and Google Home are "always-on" intelligent assistants designed to sit quietly and await our bidding. As the devices recede into the background it's the AI-powered services that will … [Read more...]
Microsoft Data Science Summit
Microsoft have a new conference aimed at data scientists. The first Microsoft Data Science Summit will be held between 26-27 September 2016 in Atlanta GA. The conference will cover ...the latest Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Open Source techniques and technologies. … [Read more...]
R at Microsoft
David Smith, R Community Lead at Microsoft, talks about how they are using R. He covers both how it is being integrated into the product line and how it is used internally to analyse operational data. … [Read more...]
RDDs, DataFrames and Datasets
There are now three Spark APIs for working with large volumes of data RDD DataFrame Dataset Which one should we use? Good question. Jules Damji provides a pretty comprehensive answer in an article on the Databricks blog. RDD was the original API for working with large volumes of data. The first thing to note is that the RDD API is not being deprecated. It has an important role to play. RDDs … [Read more...]
Face and Emotion Detection using Microsoft Cognitive Services
Learning Tree International just published my article on using Microsoft Cognitive Services to perform face recognition and emotion detection. … [Read more...]