This post was authored by Rimma Nehme, Technical Assistant, Data Group at Microsoft. Today, the business potential of Machine Learning and AI is real. Businesses can apply ML and AI to transform, optimize and automate their businesses having previously relied only on human intelligence. You may wonder, ‘how can I apply AI to my business?’… Read more
This post is authored by Yunling Wang, Technical Program Manager in the Data Group at Microsoft. At the Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit, we announced an exciting ‘human-in-the-loop’ product offering in partnership with CrowdFlower. CrowdFlower is a popular data enrichment and labeling platform that allows data scientist teams to use large-scale human intelligence… Read more
This post is authored by Anusua Trivedi, Data Scientist, and Jamie F Olson, Analytics Solutions Architect, of Microsoft. This blog is an extension of Part 2 of our blog series. In our earlier blog, we showed how to train a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) to classify medical images to detect Diabetic Retinopathy. For training… Read more
This post is by Jacob Spoelstra, Data Science Director, Hang Zhang, Senior Data Scientist Manager, and Gopi Kumar, Principal Program Manager in the Data Science Team at Microsoft. Are you building a data science team but unsure how to make the team productive? Are you concerned that the lack of collaboration or consistent processes could… Read more
So you just got yourself a brand new dataset. Now what? How do you prepare a dataset for machine learning? Where do you even begin? This post is an attempt to demystify this process, using a fun example that is of topical interest. Dataset Selection Since we are in the middle of the U.S. presidential… Read more
This post is by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft. Last week, we held our first-ever Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit in Atlanta, a unique event tailored for machine learning developers, data scientists and big data engineers. I wanted to take some time this week to recap the key… Read more
Reposted from O’Reilly’s coverage of Strata + Hadoop World, New York 2016 Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft, offers a surprising story about how machine learning, population data, and the cloud are coming together to reimagine eye care in India. Cortana Intelligence & ML Blog Team… Read more
The first Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit concluded earlier this week in Atlanta. Speakers at the Summit included thought leaders, engineers and practitioners from Microsoft and our customers and partners. The Summit featured the very latest in the areas of big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and covered a swathe of techniques… Read more
Data Scientists Decode Human Perceptions from Brain Signals This post is by Chirag Dhull, Product Marketing and Hang Zhang, Senior Data Science Manager, at Microsoft. Millions of people suffer from brain-related injuries and disorders every year. Being able to decode human perceptions from brain signals can benefit this population greatly. That’s what inspired Stanford University… Read more
This post is by Shaheen Gauher, PhD, and Fidan Boylu Uz, PhD, Data Scientists at Microsoft. Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center providing clinical and hospital care. It’s a leader in research, education and health information and at the forefront of developing and applying new technology. Cleveland Clinic launched eHospital in April 2014… Read more
