Chip Off The Ol’ Blockchain: What is a Blockchain? Part 1
Blockchain – just the word seems to stir up confusion. Because there is so much confusion surrounding blockchain, it’s often hard to get clarity about what it really is and […]
Pre-processing Text Data with NLTK and Azure Machine Learning
Data comes in all forms. Lately, we’ve been going over mostly numerical and categorical data. Even though the categorical data contains words, we transform it into numerical data for our […]
Using the Cognitive Services Text Analytics API: Detecting Languages
Microsoft has a lot of fascinating APIs available to build intelligent applications with using their Cognitive Services. Among those services is the Text Analytics API. This API offers a wide […]
Correctly Sizing Azure Virtual Machines
If you’re used to high-control virtualization environments, the fixed nature of the options for sizing virtual machines in Azure can be a bit confusing. One of the benefits of cloud […]
Implement a CAPTCHA with Azure Functions
CAPTCHA’s are those things that site administrators love because they stop comment and form spam but user hate because they are impossible to read. Regardless though, they have become a mainstay […]
Host a Website with Azure Functions and Node.JS, Part 2 — Logging
In part 1 of this series, we looked at how you could use Azure Functions to host a static website. The function basically served up static files it read off […]
Beginning Statistics for Data Science: Analyzing Data
In our last post we discussed different types your data can have. Now let’s focus on how to analyze on those types of data. Python code will be used to […]
Host a Website with Azure Functions and Node.JS, Part 1
Azure Functions are Microsoft’s answer to “serverless” computing. Functions enable applications developers to write event-driven code (ie. “functions”) than can be triggered by timers, manual integration, HTTP requests, service buses, […]
Building on App Center
In my previous (and first) blog post on App Center I talked about getting started, adding the SDK to your code, and looking at Analytics and Crash reporting. In this […]