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User Groups Nov 30: .Net Study Group ( https://www.meetup.com/net-study-group/ ) Dec 14: Azure Cleveland ( https://www.meetup.com/azure-cleveland-meetup/ ) Dec 15: GLUG.Net ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/ )   Dec 22: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group )   Conferences Dec 3: SQL Saturday MN ( https://sqlsaturday.com/2022-12-03-sqlsaturday1028/ ) Jan 10-13: Codemash ( https://codemash.org )  

User Groups Nov 9: Azure Cleveland ( https://www.meetup.com/azure-cleveland-meetup/ ) Nov 9: .Net Study Group ( https://www.meetup.com/net-study-group/ ) Nov 11: SQL Saturday Bangladesh ( https://sqlsaturday.com/2022-11-12-sqlsaturday1039/ ) Nov 17: GLUG.Net ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/ )   Nov 21: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group )   Conferences Nov 8-11: TechBash 2022 ( https://www.techbash.com/ ) Nov 8-10: .Net Conf ( https://www.dotnetconf.net/ ) Nov 9-10: GitHub Universe ( https://githubuniverse.com/ )  

User Groups Sep 15: GLUG.Net ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet / )   Sep 15: DotNet Lasi ( https://www.meetup.com/DotNetIasi ) Sep 21: .Net Study Group ( https://www.meetup.com/net-study-group/ ) Sep 22: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group ) Sep 28: Cloud Data Platform Virtual Group ( https://www.meetup.com/cloud-data-platform-virtual-group / )    Conferences Sep 17: Monthly Azure Data Platform ( https://www.meetup.com/techforum-technical-community/events/287964309/ ) Nov 8-11: TechBash 2022 ( https://www.techbash.com/ )  

User Groups May 4: “Machine Learning in .Net” ( https://www.meetup.com/Roanoke-Valley-NET-User-Group/events/285301621/ ) May 11: Azure Cleveland ( https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Cleveland-Meetup/ ) May 19: GLUG.Net ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) May 26: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group )   Conferences May 5-7: Global Azure 2022 ( https://globalazure.net / )  May 6: StirTrek ( https://stirtrek.com / )  

Virtual User Group Meetings for Mar/Apr ‘22   Mar 24: “Predicting Flights with Azure Databricks” - https://www.meetup.com/NWVDNUG/events/284074689/ Mar 29: “Machine Learning in .Net” - https://www.meetup.com/Edmonton-NET-User-Group/events/284389088/ Apr 4: Ohio North Database Training- https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/events/ Apr 13: Azure Cleveland - https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Cleveland-Meetup/ Apr 21: GLUG.Net - https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ Apr 28: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group - https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group  

Virtual User Group Meetings Mar 1: Ohio North Database Training ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/events/ )  Mar 9: Azure Cleveland ( https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Cleveland-Meetup/ ) Mar 17: GLUG.Net ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Mar 24: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group )  

Microsoft’s Azure offers a great deal of features and capabilities.  One of them is Cognitive Services, where users can access a variety of APIs to help mimic a human response.  Some features include converting text to spoken speech, speech to text, and even the equivalent human understanding of a spoken phrase.  These services are divided into 4 major categories, as seen below.  Please note “Computer Vision” and “Custom Vision” sound very similar but their capabilities are different, as outlined in the “Vision” section below.   Decision Anomaly Detector: Identify potential problems in time series data. Content Moderator: Detect potentially offensive or unwanted content. Personalizer: Create rich, personalized experiences for every user.   Language LUIS (Language Understanding Intelligent Service) QnA Maker: Create a conversational question and answer layer over your data. Text Anal...