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Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

By : Patrik Borosch
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Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

By: Patrik Borosch

Overview of this book

Azure Data Lake, the modern data warehouse architecture, and related data services on Azure enable organizations to build their own customized analytical platform to fit any analytical requirements in terms of volume, speed, and quality. This book is your guide to learning all the features and capabilities of Azure data services for storing, processing, and analyzing data (structured, unstructured, and semi-structured) of any size. You will explore key techniques for ingesting and storing data and perform batch, streaming, and interactive analytics. The book also shows you how to overcome various challenges and complexities relating to productivity and scaling. Next, you will be able to develop and run massive data workloads to perform different actions. Using a cloud-based big data-modern data warehouse-analytics setup, you will also be able to build secure, scalable data estates for enterprises. Finally, you will not only learn how to develop a data warehouse but also understand how to create enterprise-grade security and auditing big data programs. By the end of this Azure book, you will have learned how to develop a powerful and efficient analytical platform to meet enterprise needs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Data Warehousing and Considerations Regarding Cloud Computing
4
Section 2: The Storage Layer
7
Section 3: Cloud-Scale Data Integration and Data Transformation
14
Section 4: Data Presentation, Dashboarding, and Distribution

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.

You will find the following...