Public preview: Named Entity Recognition in the Cognitive Services Text...
Today, we are happy to announce the public preview of Named Entity Recognition as part of the Text Analytics Cognitive Service. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the ability to take free-form text and...
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How one artist brought her vision to life using Excel spreadsheets
Landscape architect by day, Microsoft Excel artist by night. Australia native Emma Stevens isn’t your average artist. She uses spreadsheets to create skyline imagery out of text. Inspired by the...
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Computer Vision for Model Assessment
One of the differences between statistical data scientists and machine learning engineers is that while the latter group are concerned primarily with the predictive performance of a model, the former...
View ArticleExpressRoute for Azure DevOps
Today we are excited to announce that Azure DevOps is now available over Azure ExpressRoute. Customers who typically operate in the government and financial services sectors have requested this support...
View ArticleCall For Participation: .NET and TypeScript at FOSDEM conference
The organizers of the FOSDEM 2019 conference have allocated a “Developer Room” on Saturday February 2nd 2019 for .NET and TypeScript discussions in Brussels Belgium. FOSDEM is one of Europe’s most...
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.NET Core Source Code Analysis with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier
This post was written by Varun Venkatesan, Li Tian, Denis Pravdin, who are engineers at Intel. They are excited to share .NET Core-specific enhancements that Intel has made to VTune Amplifier 2019. You...
View ArticleIoT device authentication options
Picking the right security for the job is a challenging issue. Obviously, everyone wants maximum security for IoT solutions. But issues such as hardware limitations, cost consciousness, lack of...
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bingbot Series: Optimizing Crawl Frequency
Last week, we posted the first blog of our bingbot Series: Maximizing Crawl Efficiency highlighting the main goal for bingbot and its core metrics: Crawling Efficiency. In part 2 of our bingbot...
View ArticleWhen the numbers don’t tell the whole story
Anscombe's Quartet is a famous collection of four small data sets — just 11 (x,y) pairs each — that was developed in the 1970s to emphasize the fact that sometimes, numerical summaries of data aren't...
View ArticleBringing .NET application performance analysis to Linux
Both the Windows and Linux ecosystems have a swath of battle-hardened performance analysis and investigation tools. But up until recently, developers and platform engineers could use none of these...
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It’s time to connect your products — here’s why
This post was co-authored by Peter Cooper, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure IoT and Mark Pendergrast, Director of Product Marketing, Azure. What are connected products? They’re not some science...
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Two considerations for a serverless data streaming scenario
We recently published a blog on a fraud detection solution delivered to banking customers. At the core of the solution is the requirement to completely process a streaming pipeline of telemetry data in...
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Azure Cosmos DB partitioning design patterns – Part 1
In this article, you will learn how to use partition keys to efficiently distribute data, improve application performance, and enable faster look-up. The pre-requisites of this article are general...
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Query Azure Storage analytics logs in Azure Log Analytics
Log Analytics is a service that collects telemetry and other data from a variety of sources and provide a query language for advanced analytics. After you post logging data to Log Analytics workspace...
View ArticleAI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: October 2018
A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications from...
View ArticleTest Analytics in Azure Pipelines is now at your fingertips
You have walked the right path, adopted DevOps, setup tools for CI and CD and embraced continuous testing all the way in your software development process. Are you done? Keeping the pipeline healthy...
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Microsoft named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Content...
Microsoft has been recognized as a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Content Collaboration Platforms (CCP). Our team takes great pride in this distinction, as customer feedback continues...
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Microsoft Store app and game submission deadlines for the 2018 holiday season
The holidays are right around the corner and to take advantage of the holiday traffic increases we see in Microsoft Store, you’ll want to update or submit your app or game no later than Monday,...
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Qantas empowers employees to do their best work with Microsoft 365, enhancing...
Today’s post was written by Susan Doniz, Qantas Group chief information officer. March 2018 marked an historic event for Qantas and the aviation industry: our inaugural direct Perth to London flight,...
View ArticleWhat’s new in PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
At Microsoft Ignite 2018, PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell became generally available. Azure Cloud Shell provides an interactive, browser-accessible, authenticated shell for managing Azure resources...
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