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Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

You're reading from  Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562936
Pages 520 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Patrik Borosch Patrik Borosch
Profile icon Patrik Borosch

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Data Warehousing and Considerations Regarding Cloud Computing
Chapter 1: Balancing the Benefits of Data Lakes Over Data Warehouses Chapter 2: Connecting Requirements and Technology Section 2: The Storage Layer
Chapter 3: Understanding the Data Lake Storage Layer Chapter 4: Understanding Synapse SQL Pools and SQL Options Section 3: Cloud-Scale Data Integration and Data Transformation
Chapter 5: Integrating Data into Your Modern Data Warehouse Chapter 6: Using Synapse Spark Pools Chapter 7: Using Databricks Spark Clusters Chapter 8: Streaming Data into Your MDWH Chapter 9: Integrating Azure Cognitive Services and Machine Learning Chapter 10: Loading the Presentation Layer Section 4: Data Presentation, Dashboarding, and Distribution
Chapter 11: Developing and Maintaining the Presentation Layer Chapter 12: Distributing Data Chapter 13: Introducing Industry Data Models Chapter 14: Establishing Data Governance Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Azure Cognitive Services

With Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft delivers a wide offering of predefined and ready-to-use machine learning models. Some of these services can even be adjusted to individual customer data, for example, to recognize customer vocabulary in written or spoken text or custom images. All of them come with easy-to-use APIs that you can embed into your applications.

As these services are provisioned just like any other on Azure, you will be able to reduce the amount of time it takes to implement AI capabilities in your modern data warehouse environment massively.

These services come pre-trained, but many of them can be adjusted or retrained with your company- or project-specific data to reflect your requirements.

Examining available Cognitive Services

Let's browse through the available Cognitive Services and understand the collections the purpose of each one to locate possible candidates for your usage.

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