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Social Stream Pipeline on Databricks with auto-scaling and CI/CD using Travis

Mor Shemesh December 12, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 12/12/18

Background For the tech companies designing tomorrow’s smart cities, making local authorities able to collect and analyze large quantities of data from many different sources and mediums is critical. Data can come from different sources – from posts on social media and data automatically collected from IoT devices, to information ...

Semantic Segmentation of Small Data using Keras on an Azure Deep Learning Virtual Machine

Margaret Meehan July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18

Introduction As previously featured on the Developer Blog, golf performance tracking startup Arccos joined forces with Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) developers in March in hopes of unveiling new improvements to their "virtual caddie" this summer. Powered by Microsoft Azure, Arccos' virtual caddie app uses artificial ...

Making sense of Handwritten Sections in Scanned Documents using the Azure ML Package for Computer Vision and Azure Cognitive Services

Tingting Zhao May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18

Business Problem For businesses of all sorts, one of the great advantages of the shift from physical to digital documents is the fast and effective search and knowledge extraction methods now available. Gone are the days of reviewing documents line-by-line to find particular information. However, things get more complicated when the ...

Giving meaningful context to social media influence with Microsoft Cognitive Services

Rachel Weil December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17

Background In understanding social media, context is key. Current social-media analytics can tell us what topics are trending, but they don't provide insight into the tenor of the conversation or who are engaged in it. We recently joined with social marketing startup m-oracle, based in Atlanta, for a two-day hackfest to develop a solution ...

Comparing Image-Classification Systems: Custom Vision Service vs. Inception

Clemens Wolff December 5, 2017 Dec 5, 2017 12/5/17

We recently worked with Reverb, an online marketplace for music gear. Musicians and music retailers use Reverb's platform to buy and sell items such as guitars, keyboards, effects pedals, etc. A key element that aids discovery of items listed on the Reverb site is accurate metadata. For example, the manufacturer's official name for the finish ...

Building a Custom Spark Connector for Near Real-Time Speech-to-Text Transcription

Clemens Wolff November 1, 2017 Nov 1, 2017 11/1/17

The Fortis project is a social data ingestion, analysis, and visualization platform. Originally developed in collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), Fortis provides planners and scientists with tools to gain insight from social media, public websites and custom data sources. UN ...

Using Microsoft Bot Framework as a Proxy to Publish your Bot Stack

Ami Turgman September 15, 2017 Sep 15, 2017 09/15/17

Image: Silver Jubilee Bridge by k_r_craft, used under CC0 Creative Commons Background Exceed.ai provides a platform for authoring and developing bots, focusing on brands’ digital strategy by introducing AI into the sales funnel. They develop their own stack for managing bots' dialogs, state, and logic. The bots are hosted mainly on ...

Developing a Custom Search Engine for an Expert Chat System

Mona Soliman Habib August 7, 2017 Aug 7, 2017 08/7/17

The Challenge Querying specific content areas quickly and easily is a common enterprise need. Fast traversal of specialized publications, customer support knowledge bases or document repositories allows enterprises to deliver service efficiently and effectively. Simple FAQs don’t cover enough ground, and a string search isn’t effective or...

Automating Receipt Processing

CY Yam July 5, 2017 Jul 5, 2017 07/5/17

Claiming expenses is usually a manual process. This project aims to improve the efficiency of receipt processing by looking into ways to automate this process. This code story describes how we created a skeletal framework to achieve the following: We found a few challenges in addressing these goals. For instance, the ...

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