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Data Lakes Stories of Relevance to Retail
ASOS: https://bit.ly/2ljJSgN The offline recommendations engine is used to batch-process user...
Date: 11/04/2017
Cortana Intelligence Suite Retail Industry Solution How-to Guides
The Cortana Intelligence Suite is a fully managed big data and advanced analytics suite to transform...
Date: 02/28/2017
Webinar: Top 5 Strategies in Retail Data Analytics
Top 5 Strategies in Retail Data Analytics February 22nd, 2017 at 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific...
Date: 02/17/2017
Webinar: Top 5 Strategies in Retail Data Analytics
Top 5 Strategies in Retail Data Analytics February 22nd, 2017 at 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific...
Date: 02/17/2017
Luxury Retail & IoT
A Big THANK YOU to Audrey Piquemal for the collaboration and opportunity to keynote the G9+...
Date: 12/17/2016
Convert an FAQ to a Chatbot
One of the exciting announcements this week was the latest addition to Microsoft Cognitive Services:...
Date: 12/17/2016
Understanding Advanced Analytics to Build a Stronger Retail Customer Experience
Thank you for those of you that joined by webinar yesterday: I loved the engagement and questions...
Date: 10/22/2016
We don’t need yet another App, Conversations are the new App
In my conversations with retailers, we have had discussions on better customer engagement and...
Date: 05/21/2016
Data Marketing Conference / Slideshare for IoT & Marketing Session
The Internet of Things will enable us to get data & insights that was not available till now. It...
Date: 02/05/2016
NRF Big Show 2016: Tastes, Trends, Touch Points - Understanding Shoppers Through Machine Learning
I had the opportunity to co-present with Su Doyle from Checkpoint Systems at the NRF Big Show last...
Date: 01/28/2016
Wind Alerts on Microsoft Band
The Microsoft Band SDK gives developers access to the sensors available on the band, as well as the...
Date: 01/23/2016
Executive Learning Lounge, Los Angeles
If you are in Los Angeles on Tuesday (Nov 3, 2015), join us for an interesting evening with Kate...
Date: 10/31/2015
Interesting Examples of #IoT in the Beverage World
I’ve been seeing some creative ways that IoT has been implemented in the Beverage world. Since its...
Date: 10/16/2015
Turning social sentiment into opportunity
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, and social media is much more than a fad. Today's...
Date: 06/03/2015
Beer & BigData at the Seattle Marketing Analytics Meetup
A huge THANK YOU to the eSage Group, Tina Munro and Duane Bedard for organizing the rather unique...
Date: 05/23/2015
What are the applications of Machine learning in E-commerce ?
Some of the scenarios for Ecommerce: Fraud Detection: Internet fraud has resulted in billions...
Date: 05/13/2015
IoT Webinar with VMob
In case you missed the IoT Webinar with VMob last week, here is a link to the on-demand recording:...
Date: 05/11/2015
Analyzing Alcoholic Beverage Search Data using Power BI
Here is a quick demo that I pulled together using Bing Search Data and Google Trends Data to...
Date: 05/09/2015
Microsoft IoT Case Studies in the Retail Sector
Click on Logo for Case Study Summary Using Microsoft Azure, Mesh Systems designed the system...
Date: 05/04/2015
How can #IoT Benefit #Retail
According to Gartner, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a powerful force for business...
Date: 03/20/2015
NRF 2015 from my perspective
This was my 10th year attending the NRF Big Show and I have been constantly amazed at its rapid...
Date: 02/03/2015
Big Data & Machine Learning Scenarios for Retail
In the retail industry, customer-centricity & personalized experiences are a very high priority....
Date: 01/26/2015
Find the most Popular PowerMap videos using Power BI
The YouTube Analytics API lets you retrieve viewing statistics, popularity metrics, and demographic...
Date: 12/16/2014
Some Azure Machine Learning Implementations in the Retail Industry
Its been interesting learning about the various implementations and solutions using Machine Learning...
Date: 12/07/2014
Big Data, Internet of Things and Airlines
New airplanes like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus 350 XWB are incredibly connected and generate...
Date: 11/30/2014
Interactive Visualizations
I was looking at a recent article which provided data visualizations that were rather difficult to...
Date: 11/23/2014
Machine Learning API’s for Retail
One of the interesting announcements that came out of Strata+Hadoop World last week was the new...
Date: 10/22/2014
Analyzing Data from just about any site using Power BI
I stumbled upon an interesting application called Kimono that lets you convert data available on any...
Date: 07/18/2014
Analyzing LinkedIn Data using PowerBI
LinkedIn is another source of data for some interesting data analytics using Power BI. The LinkedIn...
Date: 07/18/2014
80+ Big Data Stories from the Retail Sector
Retailers operate in an environment that demands real-time data to make decisions about churn,...
Date: 07/09/2014
Analyzing Shopping via Social Channels
Omni-Channel Retailing evolved from multi-channel retailing, with a specific focus on a seamless...
Date: 07/06/2014
Data Visualization for Salesforce using PowerBI
TL;DR: Democratizing Analytics capabilities for Line of Business (LOB) applications is a powerful...
Date: 06/23/2014
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Service and what it means to the Retail Industry
Retailers, today, have access to a variety of data sources that include social media, opendata, data...
Date: 06/19/2014
Machine Learning Resources
Machine learning not only is big in Microsoft Research, but it is pervasive throughout all Microsoft...
Date: 05/30/2014
Visualizing Netflix vs Redbox with Google Trends and Power BI
Here is a visualization that I pulled together comparing search data for Netflix vs Redbox using...
Date: 05/13/2014