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OData Finally Ditches Old .NET Framework

"The most disruptive change we are making in this release is dropping support for .NET Framework."

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Data Anomaly Detection Using LightGBM

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete program that uses the Python language LightGBM system to create a custom autoencoder for data anomaly detection. You can easily adapt the demo program for your own anomaly detection scenarios.

Stop Using Entity Framework as Just a DTO Provider

Chris Klug keeps seeing developers using Entity Framework, Microsoft's open-source object-relational mapper (ORM) for .NET applications, in less optimal ways.

Nearest Centroid Classification for Numeric Data Using C#

Here's a complete end-to-end demo of what Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says is arguably the simplest possible classification technique.

Regression Using LightGBM

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on this powerful machine learning technique used to predict a single numeric value.

Building Planet-Scale .NET Apps with Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed distributed database that can be transparently replicated across regions while remaining highly performant and seamlessly scaling according to needs, making it great for applications of any scale.

What's New for Web, Data, Desktop and Mobile in .NET 9 Preview 4

Enhancements listed for libraries/runtime and individual components/workloads for .NET 9, coming in November.

Clustering Mixed Categorical and Numeric Data Using k-Means with C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a "very tricky" machine learning technique.

Microsoft Ships Data API Builder for Azure SQL Databases

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making.

Data Virtualization in SQL Server 2022

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client connection software.

Multi-Class Classification Using LightGBM

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research provides a full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial on how to use the LightGBM system to perform multi-class classification using Python and the scikit-learn library.

Oh Data! Microsoft Ships First Major OData Update in Nearly 8 Years

Microsoft today shipped a preview of OData .NET 8. OData v7.0 was released in August of 2016.

The t-SNE Data Visualization Technique from Scratch Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step example of machine learning technique to visualize high-dimensional data.

Data Clustering Using a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) with C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on technique for visualizing and clustering data.

Principal Component Analysis from Scratch Using Singular Value Decomposition with C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a classical ML technique that transforms a dataset into one with fewer columns, useful for creating a graph of data that has more than two columns, for example.

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