Data platforms and analytics
Project
Project Eclipse
With Project Eclipse, the Urban Innovation Initiative presents a full stack -from sensors to analytics- air quality sensing platform for cities. The goal is a radical increase (10x – 100x) in the geographic granularity of…
Video
InChorus: Designing Consistent Multimodal Interactions for Data Visualization on Tablet Devices
InChorus employs multimodal interactions that function consistently across different visualizations, supporting common operations during visual data analysis. InChorus synergistically combines multiple forms of input (i.e., pen, touch, & speech) to allow people to stay in…
Project
Microsoft Academic
Microsoft Academic is a project exploring how to assist human conducting scientific research by leveraging machine’s cognitive power in memory, computation, sensing, attention, and endurance.
Video
Data Visualization: Bridging the Gap Between Users and Information
With the explosion of data available today, finding effective ways for humans to interact with that data represents an enormous opportunity for researchers. At present, the ability to understand the nuances of visualizing data extends…
Podcast
Democratizing data, thinking backwards and setting North Star goals with Dr. Donald Kossmann
Dr. Donald Kossmann is a Distinguished Scientist who thinks big, and as the Director of Microsoft Research’s flagship lab in Redmond, it’s his job to inspire others to think big, too. But don’t be fooled.…
Publication
Embracing Digital Transformation as-a-Service
Project
MSRGamut
GAMUT is a prototype to help people explore General Additive Models, an class of interpretable machine learning models. We’ve included an interactive web site which allows people to explore the models for different data sets.…