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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)

Use case 2: Using advanced analytics on Azure to create a smart airport

Najad is a large city in the northern part of Egypt. The city's main airport, Najad International Airport (NIA), services 25 million passengers per year, which amounts to 70,000 passengers every day. It is Egypt's busiest airport and sees an average of 200,000 flights every year.

The management of NIA is hoping to adopt data analytics on Azure to improve capacity planning and quality of service. The goal is to use data to address operational issues that are currently hindering NIA's ability to fully utilize its infrastructure and resources. This will, in turn, improve customer satisfaction and enable NIA to scale its operation by serving more passengers and airplanes.

The following sections will define the problems that NIA is facing and brainstorm some design ideas. Finally, you will create a possible solution architecture on Microsoft Azure that can solve this problem and explain why Azure...