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Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Has Altaiar, Jack Lee, Michael Peña
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Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By: Has Altaiar, Jack Lee, Michael Peña

Overview of this book

Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure serves as a comprehensive guide for big data analysis and processing using a range of Microsoft Azure features. This book covers everything you need to build your own data warehouse and learn numerous techniques to gain useful insights by analyzing big data. The book begins by introducing you to the power of data with big data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, artificial intelligence, and DataOps. You will learn about cloud-scale analytics and the services Microsoft Azure offers to empower businesses to discover insights. You will also be introduced to the new features and functionalities added to the modern data warehouse. Finally, you will look at two real-world business use cases to demonstrate high-level solutions using Microsoft Azure. The aim of these use cases will be to illustrate how real-time data can be analyzed in Azure to derive meaningful insights and make business decisions. You will learn to build an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud with machine learning and deep learning concepts. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in analyzing large amounts of data with Azure and using it effectively to benefit your organization.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

The problem

To properly define the business problem, you first need to consider the challenges from the business perspective. Then you will look at the technical problems hindering the airport's ability to move forward.

Business challenges

As mentioned, NIA serves tens of millions of passengers every year. The volume of these passengers is forecasted to increase by about 20% in the next 3-5 years. In 2019, the airport suffered a loss of more than $370 million due to operational inefficiencies. This included costs of flight delays due to congestion and long queues, lost retail opportunities due to poor passenger experience, poor planning of staffing levels, and under-utilization of airport assets.

NIA's CIO, Zara Hassan, is relatively new (she's only been with NIA for 6 months) and has a background in data and business intelligence. Zara has a vision for turning this massive inefficiency at NIA into a business opportunity. She presented a business case to the...