Unit Testing Azure DevOps UI Extensions

Florian Wagner March 29, 2021 Mar 29, 2021 03/29/21

Mocking cloud service dependencies in modern applications is essential for independent unit testing. We show how to mock all relevant parts of the Azure DevOps Extension SDK, Azure DevOps Extension API as well as other external APIs to create meaningful unit tests for Azure DevOps UI Extensions and reach full code coverage.

Developing and Deploying a Recommender Model for Continuous Systematic Literature Reviews

Paolo Tenti February 10, 2021 Feb 10, 2021 02/10/21

This blog post is about using the Microsoft Academic Graph and NLP to build a personalized recommender system to suggest new scientific publications to researchers maintaining Systematic Literature Reviews.

Evaluation Framework for Information Extraction

Omri Mendels January 13, 2021 Jan 13, 2021 01/13/21

In this blog post we cover the process, requirements, and the design of an evaluation framework for NLP and Information Extraction. We cover the reasoning behind such a framework, and discuss its implementation with examples from a Named Entity Recognition evaluation point of view.

Building A Clinical Data Drift Monitoring System With Azure DevOps, Azure Databricks, And MLflow

Nile Wilson October 29, 2020 Oct 29, 2020 10/29/20

Hospitals around the world regularly work towards improving the health of their patients as well as ensuring there are enough resources available for patients awaiting care. During these unprecedented times with the COVID-19 pandemic, Intensive Care Units are having to make difficult decisions at a greater frequency to optimize patient health ...

Using Blockchain To Securely Transfer And Verify Files

Lilian Kasem (she/her) July 30, 2019 Jul 30, 2019 07/30/19

As 3D printing becomes an integral part of the manufacturing industries, there are new challenges that must be solved to promote mass adoption. Primarily, how do you securely transfer accredited schematics and verify data integrity once it's been delivered? In other words, how can you ensure the schematics were not tampered with in the midst ...

Preventing Rhino Poaching With Microsoft Azure

Olga Liakhovich May 7, 2019 May 7, 2019 05/7/19

In the last eight years, poaching in Africa has been happening at an alarming rate. Currently, the continent loses three rhinos a day. As part of our team’s mission to find new ways that technology can positively impact our world, we’ve been collaborating with the Combating Wildlife Crime team Peace Parks Foundation (PPF), in partnership with

Using uPort For Authentication On Blockchain To Improve Standards On The Food Logistics Chain

Zach Miller March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19

Background Supply chains – made up of individual suppliers, shippers, warehouses, and customers – are extremely complicated conglomerates.  When something goes wrong along a supply chain, knowing where and how a shipment went bad can be a huge use of time and energy.  This is especially true in the food logistics industry. While ...

Real-time Streaming Of 3D Enterprise Applications From The Cloud To Low-powered Devices

Andrei Ermilov March 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019 03/19/19

Microsoft recently partnered with AVEVA, an engineering, design and management software provider to the Power, Oil & Gas and Marine industries. AVEVA’s challenge is one that is becoming more and more common in the construction visualization space: ever increasing complexity of 3D data that needs to be highly interactive to a customer ...

Assessing the Severity of Acne via Cell Phone Selfie Images Using A Deep Learning Model

Hang Zhang February 5, 2019 Feb 5, 2019 02/5/19

Background Watch this episode of the Decoded Show for an in-depth look with Gary Bradski, the inventor of OpenCV, and the Nestlé team. In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015, Acne was identified as the 8th most common disease in the world and is estimated to affect as many as 700 million people globally. This skin health ...

Running Parallel Apache Spark Notebook Workloads On Azure Databricks

Clemens Wolff January 18, 2019 Jan 18, 2019 01/18/19

Background and Problem Definition In today’s fast-moving world, having access to up-to-date business metrics is key to making data-driven customer-centric decisions. With over 1000 daily flights servicing more than 100 cities and 42 million customers per year, JetBlue has a lot of data to crunch, answering questions such as: What is the ...