All Things Microsoft AI

This week’s series of AI articles is from Dinesh Asanka, an 8x Microsoft MVP in SQL Server. He has been working with SQL Server for more than 15 years, written articles and co-authored books. Dinesh is a presenter at various user groups and universities.   Introduction to Azure Machine Learning using Azure ML Studio Data Cleansing in Azure Machine Learning Prediction in Azure Machine Learning Feature Selection in Azure Machine Learning Data Reduction Technique: Principal Component Analysis in Azure Machine Learning Prediction with Regression in Azure Machine Learning Prediction with Classification in Azure Machine Learning Comparing models in Azure Machine Learning Cross Validation in Azure Machine Learning Clustering in Azure Machine Learning Tune Model Hyperparameters for Azure Machine Learning models Time Series Anomaly Detec...

Virtual User Group Meetings Sep 27: Akron AITP ( https://akron-aitp.org/ ) Oct 5: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/ )    Oct 20: Hudson CodeCraft ( https://www.meetup.com/hudson-codecraft/ ) Oct 21 : GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Oct 28: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )    Virtual Conferences Oct 16: Northern VA Code Camp ( https://novacodecamp.org/ ) Oct 19: Global AI Back Together – Cleveland ( https://globalai.community/global-ai-back-together/north-america-cleveland-4472/ ) Oct 26-28: AI Dev World ( https://aidevworld.com/ ) Oct 29-31: Azure Community Conference ( https://azconf.dev/ ) Nov 8-12: PASS Data Community Summit ( https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/ )  

Computer Vision and Custom Vision are 2 subsets of services provided by Azure Cognitive Services.   Computer Vision : Analyze content in images. OCR: Optical Character Recognition Image Analysis: extracts visual features from images (objects, faces) Spatial Analysis: Analyzes the presence and movement of people on a video feed and produces events that other systems can respond to.   Custom Vision : Customize image recognition to fit your business needs. Image Classification: applies label(s) to an image Object Detection: returns coordinates in image where applied label(s) can be found.   When using the Object Detection Prediction API, the response returned from azure will be a JSON dataset using the following format.       public class PredictionResponse     {         public string id { get ; set ; }         public string ...

There has been some confusion created with the release of .Net and .Net Core releases and how their support will be impacted in the near future.  Listed below is a summary from the Microsoft Support Policy : .NET and .NET Core refer to several technologies including the runtime, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, and more. .NET Core and future versions of .NET provide Long Term Support (LTS) releases that get three years of patches and free support. Patches to releases are compatible, which eliminates risk adversely affecting applications. For details, see the  .NET and .NET Core support policy .   Version Original Release Date Latest Patch Version Patch Release Date Support Level End of Support .NET 5 November 10, 2020 5.0.10 September 14, 2021 Current 6 months after .NET 6 release (around May 2022) .NET Core 3.1 December 3, 2019 3.1.19 Se...

O’Reilly Radar presents a day of data and AI that will showcase what’s new, what’s important, and what’s coming in the field. It’s free and open to the public. The event is happening October 14 and again on October 21.  It's free, but registration is required. RSVP here for October 14 , 7:00am–10:30am PT / 10:00am–1:30pm ET RSVP here for October 21 , 8:30am–12:00pm IST / 2:00pm–5:30pm AET  

Virtual User Group Meetings Aug 27: Cleveland OWASP ( https://www.meetup.com/owasp-cleveland-group / ) Sep 7: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/ )    Sep 15: Hudson CodeCraft ( https://www.meetup.com/hudson-codecraft/ ) Sep 16 : GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Sep 23: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )  Sep 27: Akron AITP User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/AkronAITP/events/ )   Virtual Conferences Sep 15-17: Music City Tech ( https://musiccitytech.com / ) Oct 29-31: Azure Community Conference ( https://azconf.dev/ ) Nov 8-12: PASS Data Community Summit ( https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/ )  

SQLServerCentral.com is a well known web site for knowledge sharing on all things SQL Server related, as well as other DB technologies.  It’s a community driven web site that publishes a daily newsletter with articles from their contributors, as well as contributors on other web sites.  Since data is the basis for machine learning and AI, the newsletter also started to cover various AI related topics.  Listed below are a few articles from July 31 st newsletter.   AI/Machine Learning/Cognitive Services   ML{.NET} Introduction Machine Learning (ML) has come from a buzzword that is nice to have in your application to a must-have feature that works and adds value. Data scientists develop ML models in various ML Frameworks like TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Azure ML, etc. Before ML.NET became available to all developers, adding the ML functionality to .NET applications required knowledge i...