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  • AI – Will robot overlords take over the world

    July 27th, 2023 in AI, Blog, Machine Learning

    Everyone assumes that AI is the Hollywood version with robot overlords taking over the world. In reality, AI is already here and we are using it in society. Phone apps such as Uber using an AI to figure out the closest car to your destination, Netflix suggesting films for you to watch based on your history, Amazon prompting ‘customers also bought’ options on checkout, digital assistants like Alexa and Siri all of which are helping to…

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  • What is Microsoft Fabric? (Power BI + Synapse + DW + DataLake + ML)

    What Is Microsoft FabricMay 23rd, 2023 in AI, Big Data, Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Factory, Data Lake, Fabric, Power BI, PowerBI, Spark

    At today’s Build conference, Microsoft announced Fabric. What is this? In simple terms, think of taking Synapse Analytics, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Data Factory, Spark Notebooks and Machine Learning, and bring them all together into Power BI. This is underpinned by Microsoft OneLake, a high performance scalable data lake storage layer, supporting all of the above. OneLake is, as the name implies, one data lake that can be used across…

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  • Part 4: Natural Language Processing – Bringing it all together!

    January 23rd, 2023 in AI, Azure, Big Data, Blog, Business Intelligence, DAX, Power BI, Python

    Here’s the final post in this blog series on natural language processing where we are going to bring everything together and web scrape Trust Pilot for review data, which we will then perform Natural Language Processing on and then display in a Power Bi dashboard. I’ll be talking exclusively practically in this demo, so for a refresher on the theory please refer back to my earlier blogposts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). To re-iterate the goal…

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  • Using ChatGPT as a Development Tool

    January 4th, 2023 in AI, Blog, Cloud, DAX, Just For Fun, Other

    As a developer, you are always looking for ways to streamline your workflow and improve efficiency. One tool that you should consider adding to your development toolkit is ChatGPT. What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAI that uses the power of machine learning to understand and generate human-like text. It is trained on a large dataset of human conversations, which allows it to understand the context and nuances of language,…

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  • Purple Frog at AI and Big Data Expo

    December 15th, 2022 in AI, Big Data, Blog

    During the 1st and 2nd of December, Purple Frog descended on London Olympia for 2 days of AI, ML and Big Data based fun at the AI & Big Data Expo. The AI and Big Data Expo is a leading Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Conference & Exhibition that showcases the next generation enterprise technologies and strategies from the world of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data, providing an opportunity to explore and discover the…

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  • Part 3: Natural Language Processing – Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

    November 24th, 2022 in AI, Azure, Big Data, Blog, Business Intelligence, Python, Synapse

    If you remember in part 2 we discussed what Key Word Analysis is and how this can be implemented to gain deeper insight from textual data. But we can go one step deeper and extract feelings and opinions from the same data. We can do this through Sentiment Analysis and Opinion mining! In this blog I will talk you through what they are and how we can implement them using Microsoft’s Cognitive Services. What is Sentiment Analysis? We should…

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  • Part 2 : Natural Language Processing- Key Word Analysis

    August 10th, 2022 in AI, Azure, Big Data, Blog, Machine Learning, Python, Uncategorized

    Here we are with part 2 of this blog series on web scraping and natural language processing (NLP). In the first part I discussed what web scraping was, why it’s done and how it can be done. In this part I will give you details on what NLP is at a high level, and then go into detail of an application of NLP called key word analysis (KWA). What is NLP? NLP is a form of artificial intelligence which deals with the interactions between humans…

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  • Part 1: Web Scraping and Natural Language Processing- Web Scraping

    July 18th, 2022 in AI, Blog, Machine Learning, Python

    In this multi blog series I will go through what web scraping is, what Natural Language processing is as a general term as well as diving into some constituent techniques we are interested in; key word extraction, sentiment analysis and its derivative opinion mining. The last few parts will then go through a coded example of scraping the popular review site Trust pilot for reviews of the popular supermarket chain ‘Lidl’. We will then…

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