Re-posted from the Azure blog channel

Robust Estimation of Data-Dependent Causal Effects based on Observing a Single Time-Series

Cosmos DB is a snazzy new(ish) Microsoft Azure product. I was able to go to Microsoft Office in London for three days of training on the database service, which was really well structured and well run, with a lot of knowledgeable Microsoft bods around to pass on their considerable knowledge. This post will extract out some key features and benefits of the service, and then discuss how this fit’s into a data scientists role.

An End-to-End Guide to Understand the Math behind XGBoost

Hello Stitch Fix followers, check out where our fellow Stitch Fixers are speaking this month.

You can easily get started extracting meaningful metadata from your media files by using the Media Analysis Solution on AWS.

Introduction

Future-Prediction-Based Model for Neural Machine Translation

NNCubes: Learned Structures for Visual Data Exploration

Graham Douglas, a data journalist at The Economist, looks back on the days when getting data and visualizing it was tedious from start to finish: