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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)

Introducing the Azure Synapse Analytics workspace

At the heart of Azure Synapse Analytics is its workspace. A workspace is the top-level resource and comprises your analytics solution in the data warehouse. The Azure Synapse Analytics workspace can be used in a collaborative environment and supports both relational and big data processing. In essence, the Azure Synapse Analytics workspace is the fuel that jumpstarts your entire Azure Synapse Analytics experience.

In the next section, we have provided you with a quick start guide on how to provision your first Azure Synapse Analytics workspace. Feel free to follow along.

Free Azure account

If you'd like to try out any of the techniques shown in this book, simply create your free Azure account at https://azure.microsoft.com/free/synapse-analytics/ and get started.

Quickstart guide

  1. In a web browser, sign in to the Azure portal via https://portal.azure.com/.
  2. In the search box, type in synapse. Then, from the...