“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish”

Steve Jobs

This famous quote of Steve Jobs is one of the most precious quotes I always keep in my mind. Stepping into the IT industry 11 years back as a teenager, I was always eagerly waiting to push myself beyond the barriers and keep trying new things. That hunger led me to explore Artificial Intelligence, undoubtably the most used buzz word in today’s industry. I always make sure to keep myself foolish and open to learn new things.   

When I started exploring data science and related technologies 6 years ago, almost all the new things I experimented in the work life were self-taught from online resources. Even today I really enjoy going through documentations on different technologies and making myself familiar with those.

In the AI space, Microsoft Azure is a dominant player with their vast variety of tools and services. Being working with different AI related tools for years, I’m super thrilled to see the advancements on the Azure data & AI space. When the MVP cloud skills challenge was launched, I had no hesitation to go forward with Data & AI path, since I needed to sharpen up my skills and update myself with the new capabilities Azure AI is providing.

Azure AI is equipped with tools and services for anyone who’s interested in AI no matter in which expertise level the person is in. You can easily use Azure Cognitive services to add AI capabilities for your application by just calling for a REST API. If you want develop an advance machine learning/ deep learning experiment, Azure AI allows you to use your favorite open-source tools and frameworks with and adapt the power of cloud for your development.

What I actually learnt?

The challenge consists learning modules which covers most of the prominent parts in Azure AI domain including Azure machine learning, Azure cognitive services, Azure cognitive search and Bot framework. It has been a long time since I built bots. So, working with the new capabilities and functions of bot framework was a pretty good experience. In addition to that, Azure cognitive search is one of the services I’ve least used in my developments and I always wanted to give it a try. With the simple but well managed learning modules gave me a perfect star to sketch my first cognitive search application.

Here comes the most interesting part!

One of the most common questions I get when doing sessions in the community is “do we actually need to know coding to perform machine learning experiments?”

With no hesitation I say yes because Azure machine learning is offering two powerful tools for zero-code machine learning experiments. Automated machine learning supports training supervised machine learning models for classification, regression and time series forecasting. You can create and publish a machine learning experiment as a REST API with just few clicks!

Azure Machine Learning Designer provides you a simple drag and drop interface where you can create machine learning pipelines and publish those as REST endpoints. If you want advance functionalities, it allows you to add python or R code snippets inside the pipelines too.  

I know you are super eager to learn on this zero-code machine learning development tools. Check out the Microsoft Learn collection I created specifically focusing on these two tools. Don’t forget to share your learning experience with me.

Click here for the Machine Learning with Zero-code learning collection!

Happy Learning!