One of the most exciting announcements we made at Connect(); in New York City yesterday is the general availability of Azure Data Lake (ADL), a key component of Cortana Intelligence, our fully managed suite of big data and advanced analytics services. ADL offers a hyper-scale data repository for storing data of any type, and is… Read more
This post is by Nagesh Pabbisetty, Partner Director of Program Management. Since we released Microsoft R Server on HDInsight in preview in March 2016, customers have used it for predictive modeling, machine learning, and statistical analysis. With the general availability of R Server for HDInsight customers will be able to leverage the largest portable R-compatible… Read more
This post is authored by Ted Way, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. Azure Machine Learning is now generally available in Japan East and US East 2. These regions have the same pricing and SLA as other Azure regions where Azure ML is already available: US South Central, Southeast Asia, West Europe and Germany Central. Japan… Read more
Re-posted from the SQL Server blog. Earlier today, at the Connect() event, which is livestreaming globally from New York City, we announced the next generation of Microsoft SQL Server and Azure Data Lake, as well as many other exciting new capabilities to help developers build intelligent applications. Here’s a quick recap of the key announcements:… Read more
This post is by Miguel Fierro, Data Scientist, Max Kaznady, Data Scientist, Richin Jain, Solution Architect, Tao Wu, Principal Data Scientist Manager, and Andreas Argyriou, Data Scientist, at Microsoft. Deep learning has made a lot of strides in the computer vision subdomain of image classification in the past few years. This success has opened up… Read more
We’re excited to host a special Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session next week, focused on big data & analytics. Join us in an interactive conversation with Microsoft engineers who are pushing the state-of-the-art in this space. The session will take place on /r/Azure on Thursday next week, November 17th, between 10AM and 2PM Pacific… Read more
Re-posted from the Revolutions blog. A lot of what we do in the big data, machine learning & data science community is to build tools and solutions that help us predict the seemingly unpredictable. With the US elections, though, pretty much all the pollsters and the models behind them got it dead wrong. All the… Read more
Re-posted from the Revolutions blog. Dealing with distributed data and having to program concurrent systems is not always the easiest of tasks, and data scientists familiar with R are unlikely to have extensive experience with such systems. In such scenarios, Spark offers a very popular, intuitive distributed data processing platform, with R and Python APIs… Read more
Reposted from Channel 9 and the Azure HDInsight blog. The Cortana Intelligence Suite is designed to help businesses turn their big data into intelligent insights and actions. An important component of the Suite is Azure HDInsight, an Apache Hadoop distribution powered by the cloud. HDInsight handles any amount of data, scaling from terabytes to petabytes on demand…. Read more
This post is authored by Hai Ning, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. We are excited to announce the winners of the Women’s Health Risk Assessment competition, a contest that we launched on the Cortana Intelligence Competition Platform back in July this year. As we shared in an earlier blog entry, according to a World Health… Read more