From Data to Map: Visualizing Ames House Prices with Python

Geospatial visualization has become an essential tool for understanding and representing data in a geographical context. It plays a pivotal role in various real-world applications, from urban planning and environmental studies to real estate and transportation. For instance, city planners might use geospatial data to optimize public transportation routes, while real estate professionals could leverage it to analyze property value trends in specific regions. Using Python, we can harness the power of libraries like geopandas, matplotlib, and contextily to create […]

January 30, 2024 Python

Building Enumerations With Python’s enum

Some programming languages, such as Java and C++, have built-in support for a data type called enumerations, commonly referred to as enums. Enums enable you to create sets of logically related constants that you can access through the enumeration itself. Unlike these languages, Python doesn’t have a dedicated syntax for enums. However, the Python standard library provides an enum module that offers support for enumerations through the Enum class. If you’re familiar with enums from other languages and wish to […]

January 30, 2024 Artificial intelligence Leave a comment

Announcing recipients of the AFMR Minority Serving Institutions grant

Today, as part of the Accelerate Foundation Models Research (AFMR) initiative, Microsoft is delighted to announce the 10 inaugural grant recipients through the AFMR Minority Serving Institutions grant program. This pilot focuses on supporting historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), providing them with access to the state-of-the-art tools necessary to conduct meaningful and impactful research on AI. In addition to a grant award, recipients are

January 29, 2024 Python

Python Exceptions: An Introduction

Watch Now This tutorial has a related video course created by the Real Python team. Watch it together with the written tutorial to deepen your understanding: Raising and Handling Python Exceptions A Python program terminates as soon as it encounters an error. In Python, an error can be a syntax error or an exception. In this tutorial, you’ll see what an exception is and how it differs from a syntax error. After that, you’ll learn about raising exceptions and making […]

January 28, 2024 Machine Learning

Decoding Data: An Introduction to Descriptive Statistics with the Ames Housing Dataset

In this enlightening journey through the myriad lanes of Ames properties, we shine our spotlight on Descriptive Statistics, a cornerstone of Data Science. The study of the Ames properties dataset provides a rich landscape for implementing Descriptive Statistics to distill volumes of data into meaningful summaries. Descriptive statistics serve as the initial step in data analysis, offering a concise summary of the main aspects of a dataset. Their significance lies in simplifying complexity, aiding data exploration, facilitating comparative analysis, and […]

January 25, 2024 Artificial intelligence Leave a comment

Abstracts: January 25, 2024

JORDAN ASH: Thanks for having us. DIPENDRA MISRA: Yeah, thanks for having us, Gretchen. HUIZINGA: Dipendra, let’s start with a general overview of this paper. In a few sentences, describe the issue or problem your work addresses and, perhaps more importantly, why we should care about it. MISRA: Thanks, Gretchen. So as we know, large language models, also known as LLMs, have revolutionized both business and research in artificial intelligence. They are everywhere, being used to solve a wide range […]

January 25, 2024 Machine Learning

Machine Learning in OpenCV (7-Day Mini-Course)

Machine learning is an amazing tool for many tasks. OpenCV is a great library for manipulating images. It would be great if we can put them together. In this 7-part crash course, you will learn from examples how to make use of machine learning and the image processing API from OpenCV to accomplish some goals. This mini-course is intended for practitioners who are already comfortable with programming in Python, know the basic concept of machine learning, and have some background […]

January 25, 2024 Machine Learning

Revealing the Invisible: Visualizing Missing Values in Ames Housing

The digital age has ushered in an era where data-driven decision-making is pivotal in various domains, real estate being a prime example. Comprehensive datasets, like the one concerning properties in Ames, offer a treasure trove for data enthusiasts. Through meticulous exploration and analysis of such datasets, one can uncover patterns, gain insights, and make informed decisions. Starting from this post, you will embark on a captivating journey through the intricate lanes of Ames properties, focusing primarily on Data Science techniques. […]

January 24, 2024 Python

What Are Python Raw Strings?

If you’ve ever come across a standard string literal prefixed with either the lowercase letter r or the uppercase letter R, then you’ve encountered a Python raw string: Although a raw string looks and behaves mostly the same as a normal string literal, there’s an important difference in how Python interprets some of its characters, which you’ll explore in this tutorial. Notice that there’s nothing special about the resulting string object. Whether you declare your literal value using a prefix […]

January 24, 2024 Artificial intelligence Leave a comment

Research Focus: Week of January 22, 2024

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. EVENT SERIES Register for Microsoft Research Forum Join Microsoft Research Forum (opens in new tab) for a continuous exchange of ideas about science and technology research in the era of general AI. This series, which begins on January 30, will

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