All Things Microsoft AI

Recently Vinod Kurpad delivered a presentation on using AI to build document processing workflows.  The presentation s lides can be found at  https://on24static.akamaized.net/event/34/60/86/0/rt/1/documents/resourceList1636579433122/useaitobuilddocumentprocessingworkflows1636579401517.pdf   By using AI, several boxed fields (i.e. SSN) on a forma can be treated as 1 field.  It allows dynamic entities, like tables, to recognize multiple rows in a single table with various column types.   Listed below are questions and answers discussed during the presentation:   Could the Form Recognizer be used in Power Apps for receipt processing? Instead of using the AI Builder SKU that comes with Power Apps at an additional licensing cost Form Recognizer is available in Power Apps and has a receipt processing app in Power Apps. Licensing model in this scenario is via Power Apps.  https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/process-receipts-with-a...

On October 28, 2021, Jeff Fritz (Microsoft) presented “What’s new in .Net 6” to the Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group .  A recording of that presentation is now available here on my YouTube Channel . Listed below is a brief summary of the key points from that presentation.   C#10 Program.cs and startup.cs are the starting point files for all .Net applications Program.cs no longer needs namespace and ‘Program’ class declaration.  All of that is now implied Read-only records can now be created in C#. “global using whatsNewinCSharp10;” can be specified in 1 file and it will apply to entire application <ImplicitUsings>enable in ,CSPROJ will bring in namespaces need for the project’ Generated global using statements will be inserted in *.g.cs ‘namespace whatsNewinCSharp10;’ without {} can be used at the top of the file String interpolation is now available in constants (public const string m...

Virtual User Group Meetings Nov 17: Hudson CodeCraft ( https://www.meetup.com/hudson-codecraft/ ) Nov 18 : GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Nov 23 (Tuesday): Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )    Virtual Conferences Oct 29-31: Azure Community Conference ( https://azconf.dev/ ) Nov 8-12: PASS Data Community Summit ( https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/ ) Nov 9-11: .Net Conf ( https://www.dotnetconf.net/ )  

Thanks to all who attended the "Global AI Back Together" Event on October 19, 2021.   Keynote : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pJ771eAPvA   Check-In (Swag & Azure Passes): https://checkin.globalai.community/     Workshops The Azure Function that can see: https://workshops.globalai.community/the-azure-function-that-can-see/introduction Train and deploy a PyTorch model using the Azure Machine Learning platform: https://workshops.globalai.community/azure-machine-learning/introduction   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU4ffaIzhsvMr_cCt9kjQMw All presentations from the event will be posted. Please subscribe to the channel to get notifications when new videos are posted.   Evaluation: https://forms.office.com/r/ctYxEL4fDE  

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 ...