Past two weeks, I've explored some applications of Machine Learning by doing a Cortana Intelligence competition (https://gallery.cortanaintelligence.com/competitions). This is a Kaggle-like challenge, but restricted to the Azure ML environment, which creates some challenges of its own. Because the deadline of the challenge is on October 10th, I cannot post all my experiences (yet). So I've
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Last week, I had an interesting question from one of my clients about estimates of planned commute distances. For example: What is the distance I travel when I, living at Kalverstraat 7 (Amsterdam) commute five days a week to my customer in Paris (1, rue Victor Cousin)? By the way: it should be calculated for all employees, for
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While looking into the possibilities of moving my customer's BI infrastructure into the cloud, my primary question was how to handle the lack of cloud SSAS. But there's a lot more to keep in mind. Here's a few things that I think should be thought of from an architectural point of view: not only in
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Some time ago I read Chris Webb blogged "Thoughts On The Power BI Announcements At The MS Data Insights Summit", where between the lines was this rather interesting point: For the last few years my customers have asked me when MS was going to release SSAS in the cloud and I’ve always replied that Power
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This Christmas holiday I spent some time fiddling with sensors to build a Proof of Concept on Azure IoT. In an earlier post I've shown how to connect your Azure IoT Hub data to a live Power BI dashboard, and as promised, here's part two: a description - as well as working code - how to
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Azure IoT Hub is public! And if you're a little bit like me, you want to play with it NOW - which is what I did. Guess what? It turns out to be not only easy, but also pretty cheap (not to mention awesome) to set up your IoT Proof of Concept!
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