Over the last few years, Excel has been redesigned from the ground up. Currently, Microsoft is making the new Excel core-features available to every user, regardless of your Office 365 license. Thanks to the Microsoft naming conventions, it is easy to confuse the new features with existing ones. That being said, Power Query and Power Pivot are not the same things as Pivot Tables, which you have likely been using for years.…

If there’s one thing that’s common to all businesses across all industries in the world, it’s that the customer is always the primary focus. While this holds for all sectors and companies as mentioned above, the fact remains that it can be somewhat more relevant to certain types of businesses. Take the manufacturing industry, for example. So, as more and more manufacturing companies seek to adopt an increasingly customer-focused path forward, they realize they need for modern solutions and…

Summary:  There are several approaches to reducing the cost of training data for AI, one of which is to get it for free.  Here are some excellent sources.

Recently we wrote that training data (not just data in general) is the new oil.  It’s the difficulty and expense of acquiring labeled training data that causes many deep…

Summary:  As advanced analytics and data science have matured into must-have skills, data science groups within large companies have themselves become much larger.  This has led to some unique problems and solutions that you’ll want to consider as your own DS group grows larger. 

It seems like only two or three…

I had a new talk presented at "Codemotion Amsterdam 2018" this week. I discussed the relation of Apache Kafka and Machine Learning to build a Machine Learning infrastructure for extreme scale.

Long version of the title:

"Deep Learning at Extreme Scale (in the Cloud) 
with the Apache Kafka Open Source Ecosystem - How to Build a Machine Learning Infrastructure with Kafka, Connect, Streams, KSQL, etc."

As always, I want to share the slide deck. The talk was…

Summary: Deep Learning, based on deep neural nets is launching a thousand ventures but leaving tens of thousands behind.  Transfer Learning (TL), a method of reusing previously trained deep neural nets promises to make these applications available to everyone, even those with very little labeled data.

Deep Learning, based on…

Summary:  There are several things holding back our use of deep learning methods and chief among them is that they are complicated and hard.  Now there are three platforms that offer Automated Deep Learning (ADL) so simple that almost anyone can do it.

There are several things holding back our use of deep learning methods…

Machine Learning is being applied to almost everything these days, and the results are immaculate. With the introduction of Machine Learning APIs, developers don't have to train their own Machine Learning Algorithms, rather they can use these Machine Learning API's to create most interesting applications.

Recently, I red an article in which Ben Hubl applied Microsoft Cognitive Service Emotions API to do emotions analysis of video of Hillary and Trumps last debate. I was amazed to see…

Apache Hadoop announced a beta release for Hadoop 2. The Hadoop-2.1.0-beta…