Microsoft has a brand-new conference, exclusively for data scientists, big data engineers, and machine learning practitioners. The Microsoft Data Science Summit, to be held in Atlanta GA, September 26-27, will feature talks and lab sessions from Microsoft engineers and thought leaders on using data science techniques and Microsoft technology, applied to real-world problems.
Included in the agenda are several topics of direct interest to R users, including:
- The Data Science Virtual Machine, which includes R
- Deploying Predictive Maintenance solutions with Cortana Intelligence
- Using the Cognitive Services framework, which you can use to incorporate machine intelligence into R scripts
Other topics of interest include building with bot frameworks, deep learning, Internet of Things applications, and in-depth Data Science topics.
To register for the conference, follow the link below. Discounted day passes to Microsoft Ignite on September 28-29 are also available to Microsoft Data Summit registrants.
Microsoft Events: Microsoft Data Science Summit, September 26-27
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