Awesome big data and advanced analytics resources for the Microsoft Azure Cloud
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- General Resources
- Training Resources
- Technical Certifications
- Microsoft AI platform
- Azure Analysis Services
- Azure Cognitive Services
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Database for MariaDB
- Azure Database for MySQL
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Azure Databricks
- Azure Data Catalog
- Azure Data Explorer
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Data Lake
- Azure Data Science VMs
- Azure Event Hubs
- Azure HDInsight
- Azure IoT
- Azure Machine Learning
- Azure Redis Cache
- Azure Search
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Azure Stream Analytics
- Azure Time Series Insights
- Deep Learning on Azure
- Jupyter Notebooks
- Microsoft Bot Framework
- Microsoft Machine Learning Server
- Microsoft Power BI
- Free Azure Subscription
- Azure Interactives: Products, Design Patterns, Security
- Azure Periodic Table
- Azure Marketplace
- Azure GitHub Repos
- Awesome Azure: Azure for Startups
- Awesome Azure: Tools, Guides, Tutorials
- Awesome Azure: IoT
- Azure Blog
- Azure Forums
- Azure Updates
- Azure Roadmap
- Azure Weekly Newsletter
- Azure Architecture Center
- Azure Data Architecture Guide
- Azure Solution Architectures
- Azure Code Samples
- Azure Quickstart Templates
- Blogs: Artificial Intelligence
- Blogs: AzureCAT Guidance
- Blogs: Big Data
- Blogs: Database
- Blogs: Data Platform
- Blogs: Data Science
- Blogs: Data Warehouse
- Blogs: IoT
- Microsoft Learn
- Microsoft AI School
- Microsoft AI Lab
- Microsoft Virtual Academy
- Free eBooks from Microsoft Press
- Azure Training Courses
- Azure Certification: Where to Start?
- Learn AI @ MS
- Learn Analytics Materials
- edX.org Courses on Azure
- Microsoft Hands-On Labs
- Microsoft Cloud Workshops
- //Build 2017 Hands-On Labs
- Azure Readiness GitHub Repos
- Academic Resources for Computer Science
- Videos: Channel 9
- AWS to Azure Services Comparison
- Microsoft Certifications Overview
- Microsoft Professional Program – Artificial Intelligence
- Microsoft Professional Program – Big Data
- Microsoft Professional Program – Data Science
- MCSA – BI Reporting
- MCSA – Data Engineering
- MCSA – Machine Learning
- 70-473 Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions
- 70-475 Designing and Implementing Big Data Analytics Solutions
- 70-773 Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R
- 70-774 Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning
- 70-775 Perform Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure HDInsight
- 70-776 Perform Big Data Engineering on Microsoft Cloud Services
- 70-778 Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI
Artificial intelligence productivity for every developer and every scenario
- Overview
- Blog
- AI News
- AI Gallery
- Solution Architectures
- Solution Templates
- Application Gallery
- Channel 9 Videos
An enterprise-grade data modeling engine in the cloud
A collection of APIs to tap into vision, speech, language, knowledge, and search technologies
- Overview (List of APIs)
- Blog
- Documentation
- Cognitive Services Labs
- Custom Decision Service Portal
- Custom Speech Service Portal
- Custom Translator Portal
- Custom Vision Service Portal
- Video Indexer Portal
- Recommendation Engine Template
- Microsoft Translator
- Utilities for Microsoft Translator
- Intelligent Kiosk - GitHub, MS Store
- Tutorial: Build Mobile App with Chat
- Learning Paths: AI Developer on Azure
- Python SDK Samples
- C# SDK Samples
- Channel 9 Videos
A globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database service: key-value, graph, document (JSON)
- Overview
- Technical Overview
- Documentation
- Multi-Model APIs
- Query Cheat Sheets
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Consistency Levels
- Serverless Database Computing
- Capacity Planner
- Local Emulator
- Database Migration Tool
- GitHub Repository
- Workshop Labs
- Hands-On Lab
- DocumentDB Query Playground
- DocumentDB 10 GitHub Samples
- Free Course on edX
- eBook: Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB
- Channel 9 Videos
An enterprise-ready, fully managed community MariaDB
An enterprise-ready, fully managed community MySQL
An enterprise-ready, fully managed community PostgreSQL
A fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform
- Overview
- Documentation
- Blog
- Technical Overview
- Patterns for Big Data and Data Warehouse
- Reference Architectures - Stream Processing
- Samples - Anomaly Detection Pipeline, End-to-end Recommendation System
- Channel 9 Videos
A tool to register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume data sources
A fast and highly scalable data exploration service
A globally deployed data movement, orchestration, scheduling, and monitoring service
A distributed storage and analytics service that scales dynamically
- Overview
- Blog
- GitHub Repo
- Data Lake Store Documentation
- Data Lake Analytics Documentation
- Walkthrough: Scalable Data Science
- Video Series
- Introducing U-SQL
- U-SQL Language Reference
- AdlCopy Tool
- Tools for Visual Studio
- Online Training - MVA
- Channel 9 Videos
Azure VM images pre-installed and configured with popular tools for analytics and machine learning
- Overview
- Documentation
- What's included in the Data Science VM?
- Tools, Platforms, Utilities, and Samples
- Provision the Windows Data Science Virtual Machine
- Provision the Linux Data Science Virtual Machine
- Provision the Deep Learning Virtual Machine
- Ten things you can do on the Data science Virtual Machine
- AzureSMR R Package: Manage and Interact with Azure Resources
- AzureDSVM R Package: Manage and Interact with DSVMs on Azure
- AZKT: Azure Distributed Data Engineering Toolkit
A cloud-scale telemetry ingestion from websites, apps, and devices
A managed Apache Hadoop, Spark, Storm, HBase, and R cloud service
- Overview
- Blog
- Documentation
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Developer Guide (pdf)
- Apache Hive, Interactive
- Apache Pig
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Storm
- Apache Spark
- Apache HBase
- Apache Solr
- Apache Giraph
- Microsoft R Server
- Presto
- Hue
- Tools & Samples GitHub Repo
- Microsoft Machine Learning for Spark
- Free eBook on HDInsight
- edX.org XSeries Program
- Tools for Visual Studio
- Channel 9 Videos
Cloud services to connect, monitor, and manage billions of IoT assets
- Azure IoT Overview
- Blog
- Awesome Azure: IoT
- IoT School
- IoT Solution Accelerators
- IoT DevKit
- IoT Central Overview
- IoT Central Documentation
- IoT Hub Overview
- IoT Hub Documentation
- IoT Edge Overview
- IoT Edge Documentation
- AI Toolkit for IoT Edge
- Developer Center
- Hands on Labs
- Certified IoT Devices
- edX MOOC: Developing IoT Solutions with Azure IoT
- Channel 9 Videos
An environment to build, test, and deploy predictive analytics models
- Overview
- Blog
- Comparison of ML Products
- Azure ML Service
- Azure ML Studio
- Video Series: Data Science for Beginners
- Channel 9 Videos
A secure, managed, dedicated Redis cache
AI-powered cloud search service for web and mobile app development
A managed cloud database for app developers
An elastic data warehouse as a service with enterprise-class features
- Overview
- Blog
- Documentation
- PolyBase Guide
- sqlcmd Utility
- Automatic Scaling Template
- PowerShell Commandlets & REST APIs
- DWU Calculator
- edX.org Course
- Query from Visual Studio
- Azure Data Studio
- Channel 9 Videos
A fully managed, SQL-based, real-time event processing engine
A fully managed analytics, storage, and visualization service to explore and analyze IoT events
- Azure Batch AI
- Azure Machine Learning Service
- Deep Learning on Azure Databricks
- Deep Learning on Azure HDInsight
- Deep Learning Virtual Machine
- Operationalize Python, Spark, CNTK & TensorFlow Models on AzureML
- Lab: Train & Serve TensorFlow Models with Kubernetes, Kubeflow and AKS
- Developing and Operationalizing H2O.ai Models with Azure
- Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit
- Microsoft ML Server - MicrosoftML Package
- Visual Studio Tools for AI
- Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK)
A web application to create documents containing live code, visualizations and explanatory text
A framework to build and deploy high-quality bots for conversation experiences
- Blog
- Bot Framework Overview
- Bot Framework Documentation
- Azure Bot Service Overview
- Azure Bot Service Documentation
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Add Intelligence with Cognitive Services
- Language Understanding Intelligent Service
- Bot Framework Emulator
- Bot Framework WebChat
- Bot Builder SDK
- Bot Builder Samples
- Bot Analytics
- Channel Inspector
- QnA Maker
- Principles of Bot Design
- Templates in the Azure Bot Service
- Great List of Resources
- Video: Getting Started with Bots
- Channel 9 Videos
A scalable and deployable enterprise-grade R and Python analytics platform
- Overview
- Documentation
- ML Server Blog
- Tiger Team Blog
- Revolution Analytics Blog
- Python
- R
- SQL Server ML Services
- Compute Contexts
- Operationalization of Models
- Configuring ML Server to Operationalize Analytics on Azure
- Microsoft R Application Network
- Revolution Analytics GitHub Repos
- Sample Code and Data for R Server and R Client
- A Collection of Simple R Demos
- eBook: Introduction to Microsoft R
- Video Series: Introduction to Microsoft R
- Channel 9 Videos
A suite of business analytics tools to analyze data, create visualizations and share insights
- Overview
- Blog
- Documentation
- Guided Learning
- edX.org Course
- Custom Visuals Gallery
- Power BI Desktop
- Power BI Embedded
- Power BI Report Server
- Power BI Service
- Channel 9 Videos