Microsoft provides several technologies in and around SQL Server which can be used for casual to serious data science. This presentation provides an authoritative overview of five major options: SQL Server Analysis Services, Excel Add-in for SSAS, Semantic Search, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, and F#. Also included are tips on working with Python and R. These technologies have been used by the presenter in various companies and industries.

1. Microsoft Technologies
for Data Science
Mark Tabladillo, Ph.D.
Senior Data Scientist
LogicBlox/Predictix

2. Networking
Interactive

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5. http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/subscriber-only/2015/07/31/top-tech-employers-
2015.html

6. Name Atlanta Georgia Total
McKesson Corporation 3,455 3,525 36,868

7. Name Atlanta Georgia Total
McKesson Corporation 3,455 3,525 36,868
Verizon Wireless 3,525 4,839 NA

8. Name Atlanta Georgia Total
McKesson Corporation 3,455 3,525 36,868
Verizon Wireless 3,525 4,839 NA
Lockheed Martin 5,800 5,800 24,000

9. Name Atlanta Georgia Total
McKesson Corporation 3,455 3,525 36,868
Verizon Wireless 3,525 4,839 NA
Lockheed Martin 5,800 5,800 24,000
Cox Enterprises Inc. 7,484 7,685 50,000

10. Name Atlanta Georgia Total
McKesson Corporation 3,455 3,525 36,868
Verizon Wireless 3,525 4,839 NA
Lockheed Martin 5,800 5,800 24,000
Cox Enterprises Inc. 7,484 7,685 50,000
AT&T Inc. 16,794 21,084 250,790

12. Terms Definition
Data Science
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Applied Statistics
the automated or semi-
automated process of
discovering patterns in
data
Applied scientific method

13. http://www.kdnuggets.com/polls/2015/analytics-
data-mining-data-science-software-used.html
http://products.office.com/en-us/excel
http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/server-cloud/products/sql-server/
http://pytools.codeplex.com/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/services/hdinsight/
http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/

15. Technology Choices
SQL SERVER ANALYSIS SERVICES Enterprise
Business Intelligence
EXCEL ADD-IN FOR SSAS Office 365
Office 2013 or Higher x64
SEMANTIC SEARCH Enterprise
Business Intelligence
Standard
Web
Express with Advanced Services
MICROSOFT AZURE ML Free (Size Limited)
Paid (Web Service): Experiment + Query
F# Open Source

17. http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/C/2/FC21C981-
4351-4434-A78A-
3384CA7515BF/SQL_Server_2016_Deeper_Insights_Across_D
ata_White_Paper.pdf

18. SS
SQL
AS
NoSQL

20. Data mining add-in for business
analysts
• Ease of use
• Rich data mining
• Scalable

24. Rowset
Output
with Scores
Varchar
NVarchar
Office
PDF

25. Documents
Full-Text
Keyword
Index
“FTI”
iFilters
Semantic Document
Similarity Index “DSI”
Semantic
Database
Semantic
Key Phrase
Index –
Tag Index
“TI”

26. Simplified Chinese
British English
Portuguese
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR, PRC)
Spanish
Chinese (Singapore)
Chinese (Macau SAR)

27. Time in Seconds vs. Number of Documents
(2011 – K. Mukerjee, T. Porter, S. Gherman – Microsoft)
http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~lzhen001/activities/KDD2011Program/docs/p213.pdf

30.  http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/B/9/3B9
FBA69-8AAD-4707-830F-
6C70A545C389/Introducing_Azure_Machine_Learnin
g.pdf

31.  http://datacamp.com

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 https://github.com/jakevdp/sklearn_pycon2015

33. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/

37. Mutable Immutable
Classic Open
Source
Java Scala
.NET
Now Open Source
C#, C++,
VB.NET
F#

39. Conference: http://www.kdd.org/

45. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/09/free-data-science-
books.html

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https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Azure
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https://mva.microsoft.com/
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47. http://blogs.technet.com/b/machinelearning/
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/azure/en-
US/home?forum=MachineLearning
http://sqlserverdatamining.com
http://marktab.net
http://curah.microsoft.com/342704/azure-machine-learning-
videos-february-2015