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Data Engineer Jobs on the Rise – Skills Needed and Who’s Hiring

Career Insights Featured Post Azure data engineeringposted by Sheamus McGovern October 12, 2020

If you review the schedule or contents of any data science learning platform, such as with the Ai+ Training Platform, you’ll notice that data engineering is a primary focus. That’s no surprise, as data engineer is currently one of the fastest-growing roles. Job site, DICE’s, recent... Read more

ML Inference on Edge Devices with ONNX Runtime Using Azure DevOps

Machine Learning Modeling Azure ONNXposted by ODSC Community October 5, 2020

This article discusses ML inference on edge. AI applications are designed to perform tasks that emulate human intelligence to make predictions that help us make better decisions for the scenario. This drives operational efficiency when the machine executes the task without worrying about fatigue or safety.... Read more

Introduction to PyCaret

Machine Learning Modeling Azure PyCaretposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC September 8, 2020

In this article, I’d like to introduce a new machine learning library for Python called PyCaret. PyCaret is touted as a low-code resource for data scientists that aims to reduce the “hypothesis to insights cycle time” in a machine learning experiment. It enables data scientists to perform... Read more

Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Machine Learning Modeling Azure Europe 2020posted by ODSC Community August 5, 2020

Why is bringing machine learning code into production hard? Machine Learning applications are becoming popular in all industries. However, the process for developing, deploying, and continuously improving them is more complex compared to more traditional software, such as a web service or a mobile application. These... Read more

A Look Inside the AI Runtime from Microsoft

Deep Learning Modeling Azureposted by ODSC Community June 10, 2020

Today, I want to wear my software archeology hat and share with you one story about the AI efforts at Microsoft and how Microsoft built its open-source high-performance AI runtime that is saving the company time and money. A couple of years ago, I decided to... Read more

Accelerate your NLP pipelines using Hugging Face Transformers and ONNX Runtime

Featured Post Azure Hugging Face Microsoft ONNXposted by ODSC Community June 4, 2020

This post was written by Morgan Funtowicz from Hugging Face and Tianlei Wu from Microsoft Transformer models have taken the world of natural language processing (NLP) by storm. They went from beating all the research benchmarks to getting adopted for production by a growing number of companies in a record... Read more

Responsible AI: Interpret-Text

Machine Learning Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Azure Microsoftposted by ODSC Community June 2, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have a growing impact on people’s lives on an every-day-level, thus it is fundamental to protect people, understand models, and control ai systems. While machine learning (ML) services are constantly developing, Microsoft emphasizes the ethical principles that put people first, meaning that employees are... Read more

Data Stewardship in an AI-Driven Ecosystem: Introducing WhiteNoise

Guest contributor Modeling Azure Microsoftposted by ODSC Community May 29, 2020

WhiteNoise is the newly available Differential Privacy System by OpenDP. The intent of Differential Privacy is to preserve the security of personally identifiable information & prevent against database reconstruction attacks. The methods provided by the WhiteNoise system are part of a toolkit that enables researchers to... Read more

Accelerating Model Training with the ONNX Runtime

Featured Post Azure ONNXposted by ODSC Community May 21, 2020

TDLR; This article introduces the new improvements to the ONNX runtime for accelerated training and outlines the 4 key steps for speeding up training of an existing PyTorch model with the ONNX Runtime (ORT). What is the ONNX Runtime (ORT)? ONNX Runtime is a performance-focused inference engine... Read more

How to Assess AI Systems’ Fairness and Mitigate Any Observed Unfairness Issues

Featured Post Azure Fairlearn Microsoftposted by ODSC Community May 19, 2020

This article discusses how we can assess AI systems’ fairness. As we are leveraging data for making significant decisions that affect individual lives in domains such as health care, justice, finance, education, marketing, and employment, it is important to ensure the safe, ethical, and responsible use... Read more