2020 is now in full swing and the announcements are starting to show up. There are some good ones this week.

News

• Google Releases a tool for Automated Exploratory Data Analysis
  Exploring data is one of the first activities a data scientist performs after getting access to the data. This command-line tool helps to determine the properties and quality of the data as well the predictive power.
• Microsoft starts the year by releasing numerous Power BI updates
  • Power BI Filter Pane goes Live
  • Connect a Dataset using dynamic binding – use a single template to connect multiple datasets across workspaces
  • Power BI Rebind APIs now support shared datasets – move reports across workspaces while maintaining the original dataset connections
  • Power BI API generates tokens for multiple items
• Batch Operations for Amazon Translate
  AWS can now translate all documents in a single S3 Bucket
• Amazon QuickSight has new analytical functions
  Logarithms, square roots, absolute value, and exponents are now available
  

Videos

• Data Drift Monitoring for Azure ML Datasets
  Azure ML now provides monitoring for when your data changes (called data drift).

Courses & Learning

• Upcoming Online ML/AI Conference, AWS Innovate
  A free, online conference hosted by Amazon Web Services. It focuses on using AWS products to solve data science problems. It is February 19, 2020.