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Anti-money laundering – Microsoft Azure helping banks reduce false positives
This blog post was created in partnership with André Burrell who is the Banking & Capital Markets Strategy Leader on the Worldwide Industry team at Microsoft. One of the biggest compliance...
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Describe, diagnose, and predict with IoT Analytics
In a previous blog article Extracting actionable insights from IoT data I discuss the value of collecting IoT data from machines, assets and products. The whole point of collecting IoT data is to...
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C++17 adds several new “vocabulary types” – types intended to be used in the interfaces between components from different sources – to the standard library. MSVC has been shipping implementations of...
View ArticleHow to get started with Azure and .NET
Azure is a big cloud with lots of services, and for even the most experienced user it can be intimidating to know which service will best meet your needs. This blog post is intended to provide a short...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17749 available now!
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17749 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17749 contains bug fixes and under...
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Book review: SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R
If you want to do statistical analysis or machine learning with data in SQL Server, you can of course extract the data from SQL Server and then analyze it in R or Python. But a better way is to run R...
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Always Be Closing…Pull Requests
I was looking at a Well Known Open Source Project on GitHub today. It had like 978 Pull Requests. A "PR" means "hey here's some code I did for your project, you can PULL it from here and merge it into...
View ArticleIntroduction to Azure Durable Functions
Azure Durable Functions is a new programming model based on Microsoft serverless’ platform Azure Functions. It allows you to write a workflow as code and have the execution run with the scalability and...
View ArticlePython in Visual Studio Code – August 2018 Release
We are pleased to announce that the August 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the marketplace, or install it...
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Current use cases for machine learning in retail and consumer goods
This blog was co-authored by Marty Donovan. Retail and consumer goods companies are seeing the applicability of machine learning (ML) to drive improvements in customer service and operational...
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Powerful Debugging Tools for Spark for Azure HDInsight
Microsoft runs one of the largest big data cluster in the world – internally called “Cosmos”. This runs millions of jobs across hundreds of thousands of servers over multiple Exabytes of data. Being...
View ArticleExciting new capabilities on Azure HDInsight
Friends of Azure HDInsight, it's been a busy summer. I wanted to summarize several noteworthy enhancements we’ve recently brought to HDInsight. We have even more exciting releases coming up at Ignite...
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Where is the market opportunity for developers of IoT solutions?
In this article I discuss the biggest market opportunities for developers of IoT solutions. This is a topic of greatest interest to developers from independent software vendors (ISVs), and system...
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Reduce costs by optimizing actuarial risk compute on Azure
Actuarial risk modeling is a compute-intensive operation. It employs thousands of server cores, with many uneven workloads such as monthly and quarterly valuation and production runs to meet regulatory...
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Helping customers shift to a modern desktop
IT is complex. And that means it can be difficult to keep up with the day-to-day demands of your organization, let alone deliver technological innovation that drives the business forward. In desktop...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: August 2018 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from August of particular interest to R users. A guide to installing R and RStudio with packages and multithreaded BLAS on various platforms. Some tips...
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Empowering agents with Office 365—Douglas Elliman boosts the agent experience
Today’s post was written by Jeffrey Hummel, chief technology officer at Douglas Elliman. When I began work at Douglas Elliman, I was attracted to the company’s heritage—more than 100 years of premier...
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Connected arms: A closer look at the winning idea from Imagine Cup 2018
This blog post was co-authored by Nile Wilson, Software Engineer Intern, Microsoft. In an earlier post, we explored how several of the top teams at this year’s Imagine Cup had Artificial Intelligence...
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Who wrote that anonymous NYT op-ed? Text similarity analyses with R
In US politics news, the New York Times took the unusual step this week of publishing an anonymous op-ed from a current member of the White House (assumed to be a cabinet member or senior staffer)....
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