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Aug 7, 2017
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Developing a Custom Search Engine for an Expert Chat System

Mona Soliman Habib

We address the challenge of creating a custom search experience for a specific domain area. We also provide a guide for creating your own custom search experience by leveraging Azure Search and Cognitive Services and sharing custom code for iterative testing, measurement and indexer redeployment.

Machine LearningBotsCognitive Services
Jul 19, 2017
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Facilitating Growth Capital Funding in Africa with Bots

Claudius Mbemba

We built a bot with Microsoft Bot Framework (MBF) to tap into a multitude of channels, including a client's existing Android app, and implemented localization features, to connect with potential customers on their preferred online platforms.

Bots
Jul 5, 2017
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Automating Receipt Processing

CY Yam

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 quality of...

Machine LearningDevOpsCognitive Services
Jul 1, 2017
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Building an Image Classification Pipeline Using Serverless Architecture

Jason Fox

We collaborated on an image classification pipeline to perform automatic face detection and matching using machine learning via Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API. Our project was built with Azure Functions to process images using message queues.

Machine LearningAzure App Services
Jun 30, 2017
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Bot to Human Handoff in Node.js

Lilian Kasem (she/her)

When considering bots, it’s often important for organizations to have the ability to “hand off” a customer from a bot to a human agent seamlessly. We implemented an unopinionated e-2-e solution called Handoff for bot authors to implement a variety of scenarios, using the Microsoft Bot Framework Node.js SDK.

Bots
Jun 28, 2017
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Youth Homelessness Survey App with Xamarin.Forms and HockeyApp

Eric Rozell

We partnered with the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness to develop a Xamarin application, WeCount, for volunteers to use to collect survey data for the 2017 Point-In-Time Count.

DevOpsFrameworksAzure App Services
Jun 28, 2017
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Scaling UDP Workloads with Kubernetes

Jason Poon

Situm, a company that offers high precision indoor navigation, looked to Kubernetes on Azure to provide high availability and scalability for their services. As of Kubernetes v1.6.5, Kubernetes on Azure supports both UDP and TCP workloads, and respects the Kubernetes Service spec's sessionAffinity.

Containers