John Kahan has a poignant photo in his office at Microsoft Corp., where he oversees customer data and analytics. The image shows Kahan, his wife and three daughters celebrating the birth of […]
Microsoft Excel is a very robust thinking engine, but no one ever said it was pretty. It can be somewhat difficult to use Excel to get the visual effect you might be […]
Microsoft is at work on a delicate technology refresh affecting database tuning and architecture, as well as data integration and business intelligence. Startups in the data industry rely on shifts in technology. […]
Microsoft has released the August Feature Update for Power BI Desktop application. This release includes the What if feature, which was previewed in the Data Insights Summit keynote back in June. Microsoft […]
“Data wrangling” was an interesting phrase to hear in the machine learning (ML) presentations at Microsoft Ignite. Interesting because data wrangling is from business intelligence (BI), not from artificial intelligence (AI). Microsoft […]
Microsoft has extended Power BI Report Server reach, allowing customer organizations to glean insights from a greater variety of business information. Debuting earlier this year, Power BI Report Server allows users to […]
Microsoft is testing privately a tool for data scientists for data preparation and cleaning that is codenamed “Pendleton.” With its growing emphasis on all things AI — coupled with its history as […]
