AzureML and CRISP-DM – a Framework to help the Business Intelligence professional move to AI

Azure ML can become a part of the data ecosystem in an organization, but this requires a mindshift from working with Business Intelligence to more advanced analytics. How can we can adopt a mindshift from Business Intelligence to advanced analytics using Azure ML? Although CRISP-DM is not perfect, the CRISP-DM framework offers a pathway for machine learning using AzureML.

Happy Birthday Power BI! London PUG News #PowerBI

To the Power BI Team - Happy Birthday and congratulations on all of your achievements! You've spawned a fantastic product plus a wonderful ecosystem of creative partners, happy consultants, MVPs and Community Contributors, User Group Leaders, and, of course, don't forget the users. I'd like to thank and congratulate you! I appear in the video, … Continue reading Happy Birthday Power BI! London PUG News #PowerBI

WPC Day One: Translating Digital Transformation into Solutions

I blogged over at my 'official' company blog about strategic considerations regarding Digital Transformation. There is a lot of messaging directed at sales, partners and CEO level conversations. For the techies, however, how does the strategy translate into a technical implementation that you can actually deliver, to facilitate Digital Transformation within the organisation? In other … Continue reading WPC Day One: Translating Digital Transformation into Solutions

PASS Summit Notes for my AzureML, R and Power BI Presentation

I'm going to have fun with my AzureML session today at PASS Summit! More will follow on this post later; I am racing off to the keynote so I don't have long 🙂 I heard some folks weren't sure whether to attend my session or Chris Webb's session. I'm honestly flattered but I'm not in … Continue reading PASS Summit Notes for my AzureML, R and Power BI Presentation

Upcoming Microsoft Azure webinars on Azure Machine Learning and Cortana Analytics

I found these webinars over at the Microsoft site, and I'm reposting them here for you: Introduction to Azure Data Factory with Wee Hyong Tok, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft August 4, 2015 at 10am PDT  This webinar is held by Microsoft, and I recommend you tune in if you want to learn more about Azure Data … Continue reading Upcoming Microsoft Azure webinars on Azure Machine Learning and Cortana Analytics

Cortana Analytics News Roundup

If you found missed Joseph Sirosh's webinar on Cortana Analytics, Click here to view the webinar. If you don't have time for that, then Click here to download a copy of the slides that were presented. If you are interested in a review by an industry analyst, I'd recommend Andrew Brust's article on Cortana from … Continue reading Cortana Analytics News Roundup