A high-level overview of Azure’s enterprise-level data engineering solution — Recently I had the opportunity to spend some time studying Azure Synapse Analytics and I wanted to share a high-level summary of what I learned so you can determine if it is a good match for your data processing needs. This content is also available in video form on YouTube Introducing Synapse Analytics …

Understanding Classification, Regression, and Clustering in Machine Learning — Let’s talk about the 3 core machine learning tasks: Classification, Regression, and Clustering. These are the three tasks you’ll want to focus on when learning data science. This content is also available in video form on YouTube Not only are these 3 tasks very common things you’ll want to do…

Setting up a Standardized Data Science Environment in Minutes — In this article I’ll introduce you to Anaconda and show you how get a standardized Python data science environment up and running on your machine in minutes. When I talk to people who are interested in getting started in data science in Python, my number one recommendation to them is…

How ML.NET can do the heavy lifting for your C# code in training machine learning models — In this article we’ll explore getting started with automated machine learning with ML.NET using C# code to solve a classification problem involving video game parental guidance ratings. This article comes with an accompanying GitHub repository containing a .NET 6 console app that can train itself to evaluate video games and…

Using Azure Machine Learning Studio to settle the debate — Introduction

A Guided Tour of Azure Machine Learning Studio — Azure Machine Learning Studio (often shortened to ML Studio or AMLS) is Microsoft’s premier data science portal. Here’s a sampling of some of the things ML Studio lets you do: Train machine learning models Evaluate trained model performance Launch new experiments in a variety of ways View the results of…

Going from zero to a functioning machine learning instance on Azure — In this article we’ll take a high-level look at the Azure Machine Learning service and give you a step-by-step guide to creating a machine learning instance. …

Let’s take a look at 5 roles in data science and see which ones might be right for you. — Nowadays it seems like everyone wants a job in the data science field. But data science is a field with far more than a single type of job. In this article we’ll briefly explore the Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Database Administrator, and AI Engineer roles and explore how…