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Classroom Practical Data Science with Azure ML, SQL & R Course

Packing decade-long experience of building predictive models into 4 days is not easy, but I think I have just-about managed to balance what is possible. Having just delivered the trial version of my new, classroom-based Practical Data Science with Azure ML, SQL Data Mining, and R course in Stockholm, I am ready to take it around the world. By the way, this is the ﬁrst in the world, hands-on, 4-day course that covers Azure ML in detail.

5 June 2015
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Welcome Ben Watt: See Ben's Power View Modules

I am pleased to welcome our newest author, Ben Watt, who will be helping you solve user-faced Power BI dilemmas. His ﬁrst modules focus on the current version of Power View in Excel 2013, and they are part of our existing Power BI online course.

2 June 2015
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Build Cubes! Newest SSAS Course Module

We have just published the newest module in the SSAS Cube Design course: Cubes, Measures, and Measure Groups. It is 1-hour 10-min long, and it covers, in Chris Webb’s usual, in-depth style, a lot of important subjects in addition to the obvious ones: dimension-measure relationships, measure expressions, Distinct Counts, semi-additive aggregations, important properties such as FormatString, actions, like a drill down, perspectives and translations.

30 April 2015
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Speaking at Ignite 2015 on Machine Learning

I am very pleased to have been selected as a featured speaker at Microsoft brand-new, and already sold-out (!) conference, Ignite, taking place in Chicago, USA, this year. I will be covering Machine Learning, and I have a pre-conference seminar and a session to oﬀer.

1 April 2015
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Data Science for Business Analytics 2015 Roadshow

I am pleased that Microsoft have decided to sponsor my 8th annual business analytics roadshow, which makes it the 11th annual roadshow that I have delivered, this time focusing on data science, the subject I have been practicing for the last decade.

1 April 2015
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New SSAS Cubes Module: Designing Dimensions

We have just published the newest module in our newest online course on SSAS multidimensional cubes. Designing Dimensions is a 1-hour in-depth module by Chris Webb, the undisputed expert on all things SQL Server Analysis Services.

30 March 2015
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Could Power BI Prevent the Irish Economic Crisis?

I am delighted that Carmel Gunn and Bob Duﬀy, from Prodata SQL Centre of Excellence, have recorded their incredible voyage into the root causes of the Irish Economic Crisis Visualised in Microsoft Power BI. It is a breathtaking 40-min story of how anyone, given some perseverance and easy to use tools, could study publicly available data to ﬁnd out what was happening in their own economy, and perhaps to help spot problems before it was too late.

24 March 2015
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New Course: SSAS Cube Design with Chris Webb!

I am very pleased to announce that we have just launched our newest online training course by Chris Webb: SSAS Cube Design. It focuses on the project-based approach towards building OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) multidimensional cubes, which are a very mature and an immensely powerful method for analysing large, hierarchical warehouses of time-based data, such as ﬁscal results of a corporation. I am very honoured to host Chris’s newest course, as well as his other content, notably the companion course on MDX, and his modules on Power Query in the Power BI course.

26 February 2015
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In-depth Azure ML Video Published!

I have just published an in-depth, 1-hour 40-minute, demo-rich video that overviews every aspect of Azure Machine Learning: from the overall process and steps of machine learning, through data preparation, modelling, validation and testing, preparing and deploying as a web service, and testing the service using Azure ML API with a little bit of Python code.

29 January 2015
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R Vendor Revolution Analytics to be Acquired by Microsoft

Microsoft have just announced that Revolution Analytics will be acquired. I am very pleased to hear this news, not only because I use R every time I work with a client, but also because I think it is a good development for R and its huge, and immensely skilled and intelligent community.

23 January 2015
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