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Big Data & Front End Development track in the Microsoft Professional Program

June 8, 2017 Analytics, Azure, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data Management, Data Analytics, Data Services, Emerging Technologies, Hadoop, HD Insight, IaaS, PaaS, Predictive Analytics, Realtime Analytics, SQL Azure, Stream Analytics, Windowz Azure No comments

Earlier I introduced you the Microsoft Professional Program for Data Science. Right after few days Microsoft announced the BETA availability of two more tracks Big Data and Front End Development.

Big Data Track:

This Microsoft program will help you to learn necessary skills from cloud storage and databases to Hadoop, Spark, and managed data services in Azure. Curriculum of this program involves learning how to build big data solutions for batch and real-time stream processing using Azure managed services and open source systems like Hadoop and Spark.

Are you intend to pursue a Data Analytics career, this is the right program for you to gain necessary insights.

Technology you will apply to gain these skills are: Azure Data Lake, Hadoop, HDInsight, Spark, Azure data factory, Azure Stream Analytics

Below is the course outline :

10 COURSES | 12-30 HOURS PER COURSE | 8 SKILLS
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Front End Development Track:

This track provides you necessary skills to get started with Advanced Front End development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AngularJS and Bootstrap. At the end of the curriculum you will become master in Front End Development with all predominant modern web technologies.

So if you are a front end UI developer, this is something you can try out to enhance your skills.

Below is the course outline :

13 COURSES | 15-30 HOURS PER COURSE | 11 SKILLS
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Track detail

Each course runs for three months and starts at the beginning of a quarter. January—March, April—June, July—September, and October —December. The capstone runs for four weeks at the beginning of each quarter: January, April, July, October. For exact dates for the current course run, please refer to the course detail page on edX.org.

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Introduction to Data Science

June 3, 2017 Analytics, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data Management, Cloud Computing, Cold Path Analytics, Data Analytics, Data Collection, Data Hubs, Data Science, Data Scientist, Edge Analytics, Emerging Technologies, Hot Path Analytics, Human Computer Interation, Hype vs. reality, Industrial Automation, Internet of Nano Things, Internet of Things, IoT, IoT Devices, Keyword Analysis, KnowledgeBase, Machine Learning(ML), machine-to-machine (M2M), Machines, Predictive Analytics, Predictive Maintenance, Realtime Analytics, Robotics, Sentiment Analytics, Stream Analytics No comments

We all have been hearing the term Data Science and Data Scientist occupation become more popular these days. I thought of sharing some light into this specific area of science, that may seem interesting for rightly skilled readers of my blog.

Data Science is one of the hottest topics on the Computer and Internet nowadays. People/Corporations have gathered data from applications and systems/devices until today and now is the time to analyze them. The world wide adoption of Internet of Things has also added more scope analyzing and operating on the huge data being accumulated from these devices near real-time.

As per the standard Wikipedia definition goes “Data science, also known as data-driven science, is an interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured, similar to data mining.”.

Data Science requires the following skillset:

Hacking Skills
Mathematics and Statistical Knowledge
Substantive Scientific Expertise

[Image Source: From this article by Berkeley Science Review.]

Data Science Process:

Data Science process involves collecting row data, processing data, cleaning data, data analysis using models/algorithms and visualizes them for presentational approaches. This process is explained through a visual diagram from Wikipedia.

[Data science process flowchart, source wikipedia]

Who are Data Scientist?

Data scientists use their data and analytical ability to find and interpret rich data sources; manage large amounts of data despite hardware, software, and bandwidth constraints; merge data sources; ensure consistency of datasets; create visualizations to aid in understanding data; build mathematical models using the data; and present and communicate the data insights/findings.

They are often expected to produce answers in days rather than months, work by exploratory analysis and rapid iteration, and to produce and present results with dashboards (displays of current values) rather than papers/reports, as statisticians normally do.

Importance of Data Science and Data Scientist:

“This hot new field promises to revolutionize industries from business to government, health care to academia.”

— The New York Times

Data Scientist is the sexiest job in the 21st century as per Harward Business Review.

McKinsey & Company projecting a global excess demand of 1.5 million new data scientists.

What are the skills required for a Data Scientist, let me share you a visualization through a Brain dump.

I thought of sharing an image to take you through the essential skill requirements for a Modern Data Scientist.

So what are you waiting for?, if you are rightly skilled get yourselves an Data Science Course.

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Microsoft Azure IoT Suite–Provisioned solutions for Faster Time to Market IoT enabled solutions

January 7, 2017 Analytics, Azure, Azure SDK, Cloud Computing, Communication Protocols, Contrained Networks/Devices, Data Collection, Data Integration, Emerging Technologies, Identity of Things (IDoT), Internet of Things, Interoperability, IoT, PaaS, Performance, Predictive Analytics, Predictive Maintenance, Realtime Analytics, Reliability, Scalability, Self Driven Cars, Solutions, Stream Analytics, Tech-Trends, Windowz Azure No comments

Microsoft Azure IoT Suite Provisioned solutions will help you create your own fully integrated solutions tailored for your specific needs in the following 3 sections. Using these ready to consume solutions will accelerate your time to market IoT(Internet of Things) requirements.

Remote Monitoring – Connect and monitor your devices to analyze untapped data and improve business outcomes by automating processes. For ex: As a car manufacturing company, provide an option to customer to remotely monitor their car condition, and suggest if they need a re-fuel or oil change.
Connected Factory – Anticipate maintenance needs and avoid unscheduled downtime by connecting and monitoring your devices. For ex: As a car manufacturing factory and spare parts are essential for car manufacturing. Automated solutions can ensure timely availability of necessary spare parts inventory to meet daily, weekly or monthly manufacturing needs.
Predictive Maintenance – Connect and monitor your factory industrial devices for insights using OPC UA to drive operational productivity. For ex: As a car service support, you can get near real-time performance data from the cars manufactured by your company, predict the health of each components in a car and offer timely maintenance to their cars. Send real-time reminders and notifications to customers. Their by ensuring higher satisfaction levels for customers and more business value to the organization as it attracts more sales and good customer feedback.

These solutions will help you to:

Connect and scale quickly – Use preconfigured solutions, and accelerate the development of your Internet of Things (IoT) solution.
Analyze and process data – Collect previously untapped data from devices and sensors, and use built-in capabilities to visualize—and act on—that data.
Integration and Digital Transformation – Easily integrate with your systems and applications, including Salesforce, SAP, Oracle Database, and Microsoft Dynamics, making it simple to access your data and keep your disparate systems up to date.
Enhanced security – Set up individual identities and credentials for each of your connected devices—and help retain the confidentiality of both cloud-to-device and device-to-cloud messages.