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  • FabFest: Why I Decided to be an Organiser

    FabFest: why I decided to be an organiserSeptember 12th, 2024 in AI, Artificial Intelligence, Blog, Microsoft Fabric

    Hopefully, you have seen that Joe Billingham, and I have organised a one-day event in Birmingham called FabFest. It will be on the 3rd of October at Millenium Point in Birmingham and will feature a full day of exciting talks on Fabric and AI. It’s looking to be a great day and tickets are going fast so sign up here if you haven’t already. Why did we want to organise FabFest? Before Joe and I produced the idea to go ahead and organise…

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  • Unlocking the Power of AI in the Retail Sector

    Unlocking the Power of AI in the Retail SectorSeptember 11th, 2024 in AI, Artificial Intelligence, Blog, Machine Learning

    In today’s fast-paced retail environment, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to stay ahead of the competition. One of the most transformative technologies in recent years has been Artificial Intelligence (AI). By leveraging AI, retailers can gain valuable insights into their operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive sales growth. In this blog, we’ll explore two key AI use cases in the retail sector: sales…

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  • Getting To Grips With Copilot Chatbots

    May 7th, 2024 in AI, Blog

    Chatbots are becoming an essential part of many businesses and organizations, as they can provide instant and personalized responses to customers and employees, reduce costs and workload, and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. However, creating a chatbot that can handle complex and natural conversations is not an easy task. It requires a lot of data, skills, and resources to design, develop, and deploy a chatbot that can meet the…

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  • Our Microsoft AI and ML Predictions for 2024

    January 4th, 2024 in AI, Azure, Blog, News, Windows

    As we step into 2024, Microsoft’s commitment to advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is evident through its diverse range of offerings. The tech giant continues to push the boundaries of innovation, providing businesses with powerful tools to transform data into intelligent insights. In this blog, we’ll explore Microsoft’s current AI and ML landscape and peek into the possibilities that will…

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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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