Data platforms and analytics
Project
Urban Air
Using a diversity of big data to infer and predict fine-grained air quality throughout a city, and finally tackle air pollutions. http://urbanair.msra.cn/ Install Mobile Apps Many countries are suffering from air pollutions. Many cities…
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research support for climate change studies
Last June, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a Climate Action Plan to help predict and address the impacts of climate change. To further this important effort, Microsoft Research is pleased to launch a special Climate…
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Hekaton research makes significant speed improvements to SQL Server 2014
Paul Larson, Microsoft principal researcher, and Mike Zwilling, principal architect, Microsoft SQL Server, discuss how their collaboration led to the data-access improvements of the Hekaton component of SQL Server 2014, which has implications that improves…
Microsoft Research Blog
Let’s HereHere It for NYC
If any city can be called opinionated, it would be New York City, so it’s somehow inevitable that HereHere is making its debut in the Big Apple. It’s Friday in Manhattan, and despite reports of…
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DataUp: A tutorial for end-users
Kris Tolle, a director at Microsoft Research, demonstrates the process of using DataUp to post files to a repository for sharing.
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DataUp: Administrator tools and features
Kris Tolle, a director at Microsoft Research, guides DataUp administrators through the tools and features for helping them administer repositories and files.
Project
DIOSI: Dynamics of intimacy from online social interactions
Friendships are dynamic. In this project, we uncover the dynamics of tie strength and online social interactions in terms of various aspects, such as reciprocity, temporality, and contextually. Based upon these dynamics, we build a…