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Building A Clinical Data Drift Monitoring System With Azure DevOps, Azure Databricks, And MLflow

Nile Wilson October 29, 2020 Oct 29, 2020 10/29/20

Hospitals around the world regularly work towards improving the health of their patients as well as ensuring there are enough resources available for patients awaiting care. During these unprecedented times with the COVID-19 pandemic, Intensive Care Units are having to make difficult decisions at a greater frequency to optimize patient health ...

Using Blockchain To Securely Transfer And Verify Files

Lilian Kasem (she/her) July 30, 2019 Jul 30, 2019 07/30/19

As 3D printing becomes an integral part of the manufacturing industries, there are new challenges that must be solved to promote mass adoption. Primarily, how do you securely transfer accredited schematics and verify data integrity once it's been delivered? In other words, how can you ensure the schematics were not tampered with in the midst ...

Preventing Rhino Poaching With Microsoft Azure

Olga Liakhovich May 7, 2019 May 7, 2019 05/7/19

In the last eight years, poaching in Africa has been happening at an alarming rate. Currently, the continent loses three rhinos a day. As part of our team’s mission to find new ways that technology can positively impact our world, we’ve been collaborating with the Combating Wildlife Crime team Peace Parks Foundation (PPF), in partnership with

Improving Safety and Efficiency in BMW Manufacturing Plants with an Open Source Platform for Managing Inventory Delivery

Ryan Pedersen December 19, 2018 Dec 19, 2018 12/19/18

Background German car manufacturer BMW has always been at the forefront of technological advancement within the auto industry. And a major part of the company’s innovation focus is on its production system, ensuring quality and flexibility alike. When it comes to cutting-edge production systems, and more precisely logistics, new ...

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 ...

Attaching and Detaching an Edge Node From a HDInsight Spark Cluster when running Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS)

Amy Boyd August 20, 2018 Aug 20, 2018 08/20/18

Background Microsoft Global Partner Dataiku is the enterprise behind the Data Science Studio (DSS), a collaborative data science platform that enables companies to build and deliver their analytical solutions more efficiently. Microsoft has been working closely with Dataiku for many years to bring their solutions and integrations ...

Unsupervised driver safety estimation at scale, a collaboration with Pointer Telocation

Omri Mendels July 30, 2018 Jul 30, 2018 07/30/18

Background Connected cars, which have the ability to collect and transfer data via cellular networks, offer us the opportunity to make road transport safer, more organized and more ecologically friendly. To push forward widespread adoption and help the technology fully enter the mainstream, manufacturers and third parties, like insurance ...

Building a Private Ethereum Consortium

Jason Poon June 1, 2018 Jun 1, 2018 06/1/18

Background The travel industry estimates 3-5% of bookings are disputed due to discrepancies in the data held by each party and can take months to resolve. Over the past two years, Microsoft and Webjet have collaborated to build a blockchain-based solution, Rezchain, that helps travel companies resolve data and avoid invoice reconciliation ...

Copy Custom VM Images on Azure

Tamir Kamara February 15, 2018 Feb 15, 2018 02/15/18

Background We recently worked with Namogoo, a cloud security and analytics startup that works with e-commerce and retail companies to protect against ads that direct customers to competitors. Virtual machines (VMs) with custom images are a key part of Namogoo's system. These images include all proprietary software and configurations ...

Autoscaling Deep Learning Training with Kubernetes

Rita Zhang November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17

Background We recently partnered with Litbit, a San Jose-based startup, on a project to autoscale deep learning training. Litbit enables its customers to turn their "Internet of Things” into conscious personas that can learn, think, and do helpful things. In order to accomplish this goal, customers train their AI-empowered personas using ...

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