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Azure Computer Vision: Moving Beyond Faces
Azure’s cognitive APIs are pretty impressive. We did a series of blog posts on the Azure Faces API, but today we are going to look at the Computer Vision API overall. And we’ll see that their APIs are good for doing other things with images as well. With Azure’s generic Vision API, we can glean…
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DPL Reading List – October 9, 2020
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. All the Help We Can Get – We assume that…
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Introducing the Don’t Panic Labs Advanced Continuing Education Program
Businesses across the country have adjusted to the realities of our current environment. Don’t Panic Labs is no exception. While our professional services business made adjustments to remote work rather quickly, continuing our Software Design and Development Clinics required some additional thought and effort. These classes were designed around in-person settings, so their structure needed…
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Quickly Finding Sentiment Using Azure Text Analytics
Text analysis can potentially be very powerful. The ability to judge text as positive or negative is very interesting. This would obviously be a very powerful tool for analyzing things such as blog comments or product review comments (“Are people giving us positive or negative feedback on our product?”). So lucky for us, Text Analytics…
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DPL Reading List – October 2, 2020
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. How ‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ became a ‘living game’ with Azure…
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Azure Face, Part 4: Is Doug Happy?
When looking at a photo, we can often tell how happy a person is, or you can at least make a good guess. But determining if a person is happy based on facial expressions is no longer just for humans. Azure’s Face API also supports letting Azure make that guess. Let’s dive in and see…
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DPL Reading List – September 25, 2020
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. How to refresh your work-from home-routine for the next season…
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Azure Face, Part 3: Doug vs Bill
In my previous post, we wrote some code to determine if we had Doug in an image. But we were not comparing Doug against anyone else. Now it’s time to make a small tweak to train the system to recognize Doug when we give it an image of someone else – like Bill. The code…
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DPL Reading List – September 18, 2020
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. 5G in rural areas bridges a gap that 4G doesn’t,…
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Azure Face, Part 2: Is Doug, Doug?
Azure’s Face API is pretty amazing. In my previous blog post, we saw that Face can identify a human face in any image we feed it. In this blog post, we will find Doug’s in a picture. We won’t test this very extensively here; we are going to start with a pretty simple example. The…
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