Cloud Data Science 4

It was an exciting cloud data science week. Lots of interesting stuff to cover, so let’s get started.

News

Microsoft DP-100 Certification Updated – The Microsoft Data Scientist certification exam has been updated to cover the latest Azure Machine Learning tools.
Google Dataset Search goes GA – search and discover millions of datasets
Google Cloud GPU Price Cut – Google reduces the prices of NVIDIA T4 GPUs which should save some money for people doing AI
PyTorch 1.4 Released by Facebook – In addition to a number of other updates, it now has support for Java.
Amazon Launches AutoGluon – A new open-source library which brings deep learning for images, text and tabular data to all developers.
Amazon SageMaker now supports Tensorflow 2.0
Azure SDK January 2020 Updates – The SDK now includes preview support of the Text Analytics capabilities from Cognitive Services. Language support is .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript

Choosing the Right ML Tools – This video walks thru the Google Machine Learning Decision Pyramid. It is nice to know the level of abstraction for various ML tools in Google Cloud.

Mastering Azure Machine Learning is coming soon – This course will cover how to use AzureML to solve business problems