Modern Data

I recently had the opportunity to spend some time speaking with Maxim Lukiyanov , Principal Program Manager at Microsoft’s AzureML team. I asked him what exciting things he’d been working on and he g

To enable the new breed of analysts and data scientists to deliver high quality data analytics, IT teams need to augment conventional data quality processes with modern measures aimed at improving

Right, so I promised our awesome marketing lead Lucy that I would write a post every day for a month so here is the first one! Right at the start of my Spark journey there was a bunch of things availa

So yesterday was the first day of Spark summit Europe 2017 in the beautiful city of Dublin in my (heart's & heritage) home country Ireland. Day 1 was the demo and workshop day with the rest of team El

I gave a talk last week on MMLSpark, Microsoft's latest innovation to scale and operationalise Data Science. Two posts ago you heard about Machine Learning Modelling and Experimentation which couples

Here at Elastacloud we have been using Azure Data Factory (ADF) since it initial release, I’ve recently been catching up on some of the new features that have been released over the past few months.

At Elastacloud we pride ourselves on pushing the boundaries of what is capable in the data domain. One example of this is our continuing work with Power BI Custom Visuals. We always contribute our eff

Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) allows real-time analytic computations on streaming data. Stream Analytics allows one to set both inputs and outputs for the job and the bulk of the logic/operation is

A few days ago, Microsoft announced Azure Event Grid in preview, a new service to route events from publishers to subscribers, with a lot of integration with the rest of the Azure services. Tom Kerkh

A customer currently generates XML files from operating devices and wish to gain insight into the data they are generating. They require that the data is transformed and landed in an Azure SQL Databa

Empowering data analytics is one of the mainstays of modern Cloud Computing. Approaches that may themselves be tried and tested are applied at internet scale with the co-ordinated, distributed co

I managed to meet up with Andrew Morgan at the Spark Summit who I met a few years ago when he was a regular at Data Science London and working on a time series predictive model called Trend Calculus w

Yesterday was the start of the actual conference after a great workshop day! Team Elastacloud were once again up bright and early (perhaps regretting the night before and lack of sleep), which was tri

I'm at the Spark Summit in Dublin and have been in a session with Team Elastacloud today on Spark optimisation. It has been a pretty good session. Many of the things I knew already; several things on