Data platforms and analytics
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Microsoft Research Open Data
Microsoft Research Open Data is a data repository that makes available datasets that researchers at Microsoft have created and published in conjunction with their research. Our goal is to provide a simple platform to Microsoft’s…
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Large-scale Models of Consumer Choice and Counterfactual Inference
Recent advances in machine learning have showed great promise in predicting consumer behavior. Yet, many firms need to make decisions about changes to the environment, such as changes in prices, promotions, and introducing new products.…
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Tech Showcase: FarmBeats: Empowering Farmers with Low-Cost Digital Agriculture Solutions
Data-driven techniques help boost agricultural productivity by increasing yields, reducing losses and cutting down input costs. However, these techniques have seen sparse adoption owing to high costs of manual data collection and limited connectivity solutions.…
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Tech Showcase: FaRM
FaRM is an in-memory transactional object store for random-access latency-sensitive workloads, such as graphs and key-value stores. It provides high throughput and low microsecond latency by using remote direct memory access (RDMA) and novel transactional…
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Tech Showcase: Private Compute
Microsoft has established itself as a pioneer in trustworthy computing. Features such as Always Encrypted in SQL Server show how we continue to keep trust while making world-class products. We imagine a world where user…
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Data Science Summer School 2018 – Exploring the Reliability of the NYC Subway System
The New York City subway is the largest rapid transit system in the world, serving approximately 5.5 million riders each day. Recently there has been a growing concern over the state of the subway system…
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Tech Showcase: High-Fidelity Simulations: The Critical Path to Real-World AI
Developing and testing real-world AI is an expensive and time-consuming process. We need to collect a large amount of annotated training data in a variety of conditions and environments, and such data-driven systems can result…
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Database and Data Analytic Systems
Increasing availability of the data, coupled with breakthroughs in Machine Learning and AI, have raised the ambitions of the enterprises to exploit insights from data to transform their businesses. This has challenged the data platform…
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Faculty Summit 2018: Welcome and Introduction
The Research Faculty Summit 2018 will bring together leaders and researchers from the broad systems research area in computer science. The summit will present the latest information and results from Microsoft product and research groups.…
