West Women Awards Ceremony

Proud to be listed in the top 100 most inspiring women in the region. The awards ceremony tonight in Bristol helps promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace which is fundamental to providing an environment for innovation and to enable companies to lead. It also creates a culture that can enable everyone to aspire to follow their dreams.

Microsoft 365 services and updates

In the MSBuild Keynote a list of updates for Microsoft 365 services was also announced.

MSBulid Announcements

Scott Guthrie listed several announcements ahead of MSBuild
New intelligent cloud and intelligent edge advancements ushering in the next era of computing

The links to the core data platform changes are below:
Azure SQL Database Edge: Enabling intelligent data at the edge

Analytics in Azure remains unmatched with new innovations

Power Query Comes To Azure Data Factory With Wrangling Data Flows

What’s Microsoft’s vision for conversational AI? Computers that understand you - The AI Blog

SQL Database serverless (preview)

A deep dive into what’s new with Azure Cognitive Services

It is possible to watch the MSBuild key note and other featured on-demand sessions. 

Google AI training data set

Google has released an AI training data set with 5 million images and 200,000 landmarks. The open-sourced Google-Landmarks-v2 contains a larger landmark recognition corpus. Google has also launched two new challenges Landmark Recognition 2019 and Landmark Retrieval 2019 on Kaggle.

Azure Open Datasets

Azure Open Datasets are curated public datasets that can be used to add scenario-specific features to machine learning solutions for more accurate models. Open Datasets are on Microsoft Azure and are available to Azure Databricks, Machine Learning service, and Machine Learning Studio. Access to the datasets is through the APIs and other products, such as Power BI and Azure Data Factory.

Microsoft Build is coming

It is that time of year again and I am looking forward to see what announcements are going to be made at MSBuild 2019. MSBuild explores the latest developer tools and technologies.

Spark+AI Summit 2019

The SparkAI Summit shared a lot of  announcements. The open source announcements were






Koalas - a more complete Pandas API

The open sourcing of Databricks Delta as Delta Lake. Delta dramatically simplifies building reliable data lakes on HDFS and cloud storage with ACID transactions, indexes and scalable metadata handling.

Microsoft is joining the MLflow project and adding MLflow APIs in Azure ML.

Rohan Kumar  of Microsoft announced .NET for Apache Spark, making Apache Spark accessible to .NET developers - Git Hub

Spark 3.0 expected later in the year

The keynote videos are all online now and other session videos will be there in about 2 weeks.