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Awesome big data and advanced analytics resources for the Microsoft Azure Cloud

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Awesome big data and advanced analytics resources for the Microsoft Azure Cloud

  1. Azure General
  2. AI and Machine Learning
  3. Cloud Scale Analytics

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Table of Contents

  1. Azure General

  2. AI and Machine Learning

  3. Cloud Scale Analytics

Azure General

Getting to know Azure

Training Resources

Technical Certifications

  • Microsoft Certifications - Role-based certifications for Developers, Administrators, Solution Architects, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, AI Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Security Engineers, and Functional Consultants.

  • Certifications (Role based)

    • Data Engineer - Data Engineers design and implement the management, monitoring, security, and privacy of data using the full stack of data services.
    • Data Scientist - Data Scientists apply machine learning techniques to train, evaluate, and deploy models that solve business problems.
    • AI Engineer - AI Engineers use Cognitive Services, Machine Learning, and Knowledge Mining to architect and implement Microsoft AI solutions.
    • DevOps Engineer - DevOps Engineers combine people, process, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives.

  • Exams

    • Active
      • AI-100 - Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution.
      • DP-100 - Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure.
      • DP-200 - Implementing an Azure Data Solution.
      • DP-201 - Designing an Azure Data Solution.
    • Old
      • 70-473 - Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions.
      • 70-475 - Designing and Implementing Big Data Analytics Solutions.
      • 70-773 - Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R.
      • 70-774 - Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning.
      • 70-775 - Perform Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure HDInsight.
      • 70-776 - Perform Big Data Engineering on Microsoft Cloud Services.
      • 70-778 - Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI.

  • MPPs now retired

AI + Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence productivity for every developer and every scenario

AI Apps and Agents

Deliver breakthrough experiences in your apps

Azure Cognitive Services

A collection of APIs to tap into vision, speech, language, knowledge, and search technologies

  • Overview (List of APIs) - A comprehensive family of AI services and cognitive APIs to help you build intelligent apps.
  • Blog - Azure Cognitive Services Blog.
  • Documentation - Learn how to build intelligent and supported algorithms into apps, websites, and bots to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret your user needs.
  • Decison
  • Language
    • Immersive Reader
    • Language Understanding
    • QnA Maker
    • Text Analytics
    • Translator Text
      • Custom Translator Portal - Learn how to customize Microsoft Translator's neural text and speech translation systems using your own training data to fit your style and terminology.
      • Microsoft Translator - Translated conversations across devices, for one-on-one chats and for larger group interactions.
      • Microsoft Translator Git Repo - Samples and utilities for Microsoft Translator.
  • Speech
    • Speech to Text
    • Text to Speech
    • Speech Translation
    • Speaker Recognition
    • Speech Studio
      • Custom Speech - A set of online tools that allow you to evaluate and improve Microsoft's speech-to-text accuracy for your applications, tools, and products.
      • Custom Keyword - Customizing your keyword is an effective way to differentiate your device and strengthen your branding.
      • Custom Voice - Record and upload training data to create a one-of-a-kind voice for your applications.
      • Audio Content Creation - Manage SSML files.
      • Custom Commands - Easily configure commands, so that users can complete tasks using their voice.
      • Speech CLI - Command line tool for using the Speech service without writing any code, it is production-ready and can be scaled up to run larger processes using automated .bat or shell scripts.
  • Vision
    • Computer Vision
    • Custom Vision
      • Custom Vision Service Portal - Customize your own state-of-the-art computer vision models that fit with your unique use case by just bringing a few examples of labeled images.
    • Face
    • Form Recognizer
    • Ink Recognizer
    • Video Indexer
      • Video Indexer Portal - Easily extract insights from your videos and quickly enrich your applications to enhance discovery and engagement.
  • Web search
    • Bing Autosuggest
    • Bing Custom Search
    • Bing Entity Search
    • Bing Image Search
    • Bing News Search
    • Bing Spell Check
    • Bing Video Search
    • Bing Visual Search
    • Bing Web Search
  • Cognitive Research Technologies - This set of innovative APIs and SDKs provides researchers and developers with an early look at emerging cognitive capabilities.
  • From Ignite
  • Vowpal Wabbit - Vowpal Wabbit for reinforcement learning (contextual bandit, learning to search), supervised learning (active learning, extreme
  • Recommendations Solution - (Old) Azure AI Gallery template for Recommendations Solution.
  • Intelligent Kiosk
    • GitHub - Find several demos showcasing workflows and experiences built on top of the Microsoft Cognitive Services.
    • MS Store - On Microsoft Store: From face identification, emotion understanding and computer vision, to bots, text analytics and Bing services, the kiosk is your toolbox of AI demos, ready whenever you need an intuitive and engaging way of showing off Microsoft AI.
  • Tutorial: Build Mobile App with Chat - The tutorial uses several Azure services to power a real-time chat infrastructure that is readymade for analytics.
  • Microsoft Azure Developer: Creating and Integrating AI with Azure Services - Explore the landscape of AI in the Microsoft space, and examine some practical examples to get you started.
  • Python SDK Samples - Learn how to use the Cognitive Services Python SDK with these samples.
  • C# SDK Samples - Learn how to use the Cognitive Services C# SDK with these samples.
  • Channel 9 Videos - Channel 9: Cognitive Services.

Microsoft Bot Framework

A framework to build and deploy high-quality bots for conversation experiences

Knowledge Mining

Uncover latent insights from all your content

Azure Cognitive Search

AI-powered cloud search service for web and mobile app development

Machine Learning

Quickly and easily build, train, deploy and manage your models

Azure Machine Learning

Cloud-based environment you can use to train, deploy, automate, manage, and track ML models.

Deep Learning on Azure

This whole section is planned to be reorganized (product-related, tools, DL frameworks, MLOps/DevOps)

Jupyter Notebooks

A web application to create documents containing live code, visualizations and explanatory text

Microsoft Machine Learning Server

A scalable and deployable enterprise-grade R and Python analytics platform

Cloud Scale Analytics

Azure Analysis Services

An enterprise-grade data modeling engine in the cloud

Azure Cosmos DB

A globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database service: key-value, graph, document (JSON)

Azure Database for MariaDB

An enterprise-ready, fully managed community MariaDB

Azure Database for MySQL

An enterprise-ready, fully managed community MySQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

An enterprise-ready, fully managed community PostgreSQL

Azure Databricks

A fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform

Azure Data Catalog

A tool to register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume data sources

Azure Data Explorer

A fast and highly scalable data exploration service

Azure Data Factory

A globally deployed data movement, orchestration, scheduling, and monitoring service

Azure Data Lake

A distributed storage and analytics service that scales dynamically

Azure Event Hubs

A cloud-scale telemetry ingestion from websites, apps, and devices

Azure HDInsight

A managed Apache Hadoop, Spark, Storm, HBase, and R cloud service

Azure IoT

Cloud services to connect, monitor, and manage billions of IoT assets

Azure Redis Cache

A secure, managed, dedicated Redis cache

Azure SQL Database

A managed cloud database for app developers

Azure SQL Data Warehouse

An elastic data warehouse as a service with enterprise-class features

Azure Stream Analytics

A fully managed, SQL-based, real-time event processing engine

Azure Time Series Insights

A fully managed analytics, storage, and visualization service to explore and analyze IoT events

Microsoft Power BI

A suite of business analytics tools to analyze data, create visualizations and share insights