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R Generation: 25 Years of R
The August 2018 issue of Significance Magazine includes a retrospective feature on the R language. (I suggest reading the PDF version, also available for free access.) The article by Nick Thieme looks...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Data welcomes Data Platform Summit attendees
I am extremely honored to be delivering the keynote next week at the Data Platform Summit (DPS) in Bangalore. DPS is one of the events that I am looking forward to participating in as it will provide...
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Adventist Health System is enhancing healthcare delivery using Microsoft 365
Today’s post was written by Tony Qualls, director of enterprise technical services at Adventist Health System in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Over the years, healthcare has changed from hospital-based...
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Azure Marketplace consulting offers: April
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. In April, 73 consulting offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: 1-Day: Getting Started...
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Automatic intelligent insights to optimize performance with SQL Data Warehouse
We are excited to announce that SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) serves you intelligent performance insights within the Azure portal! SQL DW is a flexible, secure, and fully managed analytics platform for...
View ArticleGetting started with IoT: what do you do with all that data?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about generating data, helping organizations discover new insights about their operations from that data, and identifying opportunities to become more productive and...
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Improve collaborative care and clinical data sharing with blockchain
Currently, the healthcare industry suffers major inefficiencies due to diverse uncoordinated and unconnected data sources/systems. Collaboration is vital to improve healthcare outcomes. With digitized...
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Managed Disks migration now available in the Azure Portal
We are excited to announce the capability of converting VMs with unmanaged Disks to Managed Disks in the Azure Portal! Now you can migrate to Managed Disks in single click without requiring PowerShell...
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Real example: improve accuracy, reduce training times for existing R codebase
When you buy an item on a favored website, does the site show you pictures of what others have bought? That’s the result of a recommendation system. Retailers have been building such systems for years,...
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Realtime Transit Trip Updates Added to CalcRoute API
We are announcing the addition of real-time transit trip updates to the CalcRoute API. Real-time transit data is made available by a limited set of transit agencies who provide their data in real-time...
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Tiered Compilation Preview in .NET Core 2.1
If you are a fan of .NET performance there has been a lot great news lately such as Performance Improvements in .NET Core 2.1 and Announcing .NET Core 2.1, but we’ve got more. Tiered compilation is a...
View ArticleGeneral availability of instance size flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual...
This blog post was co-authored by Arabinda Mohapatra, Prinicipal Engineering Manager, Microsoft Azure. We are excited to announce instance size flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Inspire 2018 Bing Maps APIs session recordings are now available
The Bing Maps team was in Las Vegas, Nevada July 15th through the 18th, for Microsoft Inspire 2018. If you were not able to attend, the sessions are now available for viewing on the Microsoft Partner...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.03
It’s Friday, which means I get to kick back and catch up on all the news coming out of the Microsoft DevOps community. There’s a bunch of great blog posts about DevOps, plus a new episode of the Radio...
View ArticleVideo: How to run R and Python in SQL Server from a Jupyter notebook
Did you know that you can run R and Python code within a SQL Server instance? Not only does this give you a powerful server to process your data science calculations, but it makes things faster by...
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Intelligent Search that can save you money: hotel booking, home services...
The Internet has put thousands of stores and service providers at our fingertips, allowing us to buy goods and services with the click of a button. This convenience comes with a set of challenges,...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Undangerous Australia?
This comedy sketch from the New York Times imagines a possible new angle for a commercial from the Australian Tourist Commission. (NSFW language in the punchline at the very end.) I've had a fantastic...
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Developing locally with ASP.NET Core under HTTPS, SSL, and Self-Signed Certs
Last week on Twitter @getify started an excellent thread pointing out that we should be using HTTPS even on our local machines. Why? You want your local web development set up to reflect your...
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Accelerate healthcare initiatives with Azure UK NHS blueprints
Today, the healthcare industry is confronting many complex and daunting challenges that include demands to: Increase patient engagement. Take advantage of big data, analytics, artificial Intelligence...
View ArticleEnhance your DevSecOps practices with Azure Security Center’s newest playbooks
Cloud-hosted workloads offer excellent scalability, ease of deployment, and pre-secured infrastructure for your workloads. However, the workloads themselves may still be susceptible to attack by...
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