Meet Damian Burrin , Damian started working as one of the first dedicated school ICT technicians back in 1994 cutting his teeth on Riscos 3 , Nexus networks and Windows 3.11 networking after having completed an HNC in Computing. After getting frustrated at seeing ICT taught as a throw away subject by non-specialist he…
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Azure Machine Learning Tutorial using Phyton, API and Excel
This tutorial we will introduce you to machine learning capabilities available in Microsoft Azure, specifically Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML). Azure ML is a fully managed machine learning platform that allows you to perform predictive analytics. Development of models (experiments) is achieved using the Azure ML Studio, a web based design environment that empowers…
The Power of University Projects, students, tech & a good cause – Band to the North Pole
James Redden is a former soldier turned technology consultant. A keen runner with a taste for the extreme, his travels have taken him around the world and to some of the arduous destinations on Earth including the Sahara desert, the jungles of South East Asia, the frigid seas of the South Atlantic and the…
Future Decoded 2016 Register Now
There is now 5 weeks to go to Future Decoded! Do you have your ticket? About Future Decoded Unleashing the power of algorithms on a universe of endless data is a well established topic, but to-date, no-one has really explained how you make the leap from where you are today to build a digital business…
TensorFlow on Docker with Microsoft Azure Container Services
TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile…
Getting Started with Docker and Azure Container Services
Docker is the world’s most popular containerization platform. Docker containers wrap a piece of software in a complete filesystem that contains everything needed to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries – anything that can be installed on a server. This guarantees that the software will always run the same, regardless of its environment. Containers…
Hybrid Learning Spaces effective use of your existing labs with Cloud Virtual Machines
So for the last 10 years the concept of Hybrid Learning Spaces has been growing across academic institutions this week I attend a Industrial Board where one of the key debates was growth of the department but how this was limited by computer lab faciilities and simply how many PC could be fitted into…
Migrating Azure Services between different Azure Subscriptions
One of the key issues student and academic potentially face during projects or assignments is the ability to move data between Azure Subscriptions. The link https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/resource-group-move-resources/ has a full walk through of the various scenarios. The migration feature is changing a fast rate i.e. weeks so it depends what you want to move and…
Scenarios for Big Data–Capture, Curate and Consume
Step 1. Ingest Tweets with python scripts on the Data Science Virtual Machine Step 2. Move the Tweets into an Blob on Azure Storage using Azure Storage Explorer Step 3. Run Azure Data Lake Copy to move data from Blob storage to Azure Data Lake The easiest way to create a pipeline that copies data…
Creating a custom Virtual Machine for deployment on Azure
I was speaking at a University this week where they wanted to deploy specific Linux machine for their labs based on specific build of Red Hat Linux. the University already had a custom build for their labs PC but wanted to make this available as an Azure VM. The team already had PCs on…