"The most disruptive change we are making in this release is dropping support for .NET Framework."
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete program that uses the Python language LightGBM system to create a custom autoencoder for data anomaly detection. You can easily adapt the demo program for your own anomaly detection scenarios.
- By James McCaffrey
- 08/02/2024
Chris Klug keeps seeing developers using Entity Framework, Microsoft's open-source object-relational mapper (ORM) for .NET applications, in less optimal ways.
Here's a complete end-to-end demo of what Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says is arguably the simplest possible classification technique.
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/17/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on this powerful machine learning technique used to predict a single numeric value.
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/05/2024
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed distributed database that can be transparently replicated across regions while remaining highly performant and seamlessly scaling according to needs, making it great for applications of any scale.
Enhancements listed for libraries/runtime and individual components/workloads for .NET 9, coming in November.
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a "very tricky" machine learning technique.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/15/2024
Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making.
PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client connection software.
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research provides a full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial on how to use the LightGBM system to perform multi-class classification using Python and the scikit-learn library.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/02/2024
Microsoft today shipped a preview of OData .NET 8. OData v7.0 was released in August of 2016.
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step example of machine learning technique to visualize high-dimensional data.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/15/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on technique for visualizing and clustering data.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/01/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a classical ML technique that transforms a dataset into one with fewer columns, useful for creating a graph of data that has more than two columns, for example.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/16/2024