Data platforms and analytics
Video
Compositional Data Access and Manipulation
Haskell lets you write beautiful, modular code. Rather than waffle generally, I’ll use this talk to look at a particular example, Edward Kmett’s lovely lens library. Lenses have been called “jQuery for data types”: they…
Tool
Discussion Graph Tool
Discussion Graph Tool (DGT) simplifies social media analysis by making it easy to extract high-level features and co-occurrence relationships from raw data. With just 3-4 simple lines of script, you can load your social media…
Microsoft Research Blog
AI Takes to the Skies
As do other recreational pilots, Ashish Kapoor learned during flight training that he shouldn’t count on the accuracy of wind forecasts. The best available forecasts in the United States—from the federal government’s Winds Aloft program—have…
Video
Windflow: Mining Flight Data To Predict Wind Conditions
The Windflow project uses aircraft in flight as a vast sensor network to infer atmospheric conditions with greater accuracy. Devised by Ashish Kapoor, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research who specializes in machine learning and…
