From Data Developer to Data Scientist in one day

2018

TL; DR

Organisations are increasingly looking to ML to gain competitive advantage. You may have already heard terminology such as decision Trees, deep neural networks etc. This day will walk you through everything you need to understand Advanced Analytics

Session Details

This full day workshop will help enhance your skills set from data developer to a data scientist

The following items will be covered

What is Machine Learning and why would you use it
What are the common types of learning and algorithms (From unsupervised to supervised, decision trees to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks)
How do you approach a Machine Learning Project?
What tooling is available in the Microsoft stack and how do you operationalize (from Microsoft Cognitive Services to Microsoft Azure Machine Learning to R and R Server with SQL)

Pre-requisites
Database Developer
Laptop Required:yes

Spec: Capable of running Visual Studio 2015 or 2017
Software: Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 would be nice to have but not essential
Subscriptions: Azure is nice to have

3 things you'll get out of this session

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