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Azure Tutorial: Predicting Gas Prices Using Azure Machine Learning Studio

Machine learning has changed the way we deal with data. Data driven problems, that are difficult to solve using standard methods, can often be tackled with much more ease using machine learning algorithms. In this article, we will explore Azure Machine Learning features and capabilities through solving one of the problems that we face in our everyday lives.

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Ivan Matec

Ivan Matec

Ivan has over 12 years of experience developing .NET and web applications, including web-based solutions for medical institutions.

The New Wave of Entrepreneurship

We will see technology push its way forward and society will be the better for it. The exciting question is who will lead this wave of disruption?

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Matt Swanson

Matt Swanson

CEO of the startup Augment, Matt (MCS) is a tech entrepreneur who wants to one day create truly intelligent machines.

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Top 10 Most Common C++ Mistakes That Developers Make

C++ is a general purpose programming language that offers great flexibility when it comes to system programming and application development. The language, however, comes with some pitfalls requiring attention from developers to ensure quality programming. This article explains how ten of the most common C++ developer mistakes can be avoided.

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Vatroslav Bodrozic

Vatroslav Bodrozic

Vatroslav has 20+ years of programming experience. He enjoys complex, well-designed projects to challenge his passion for problem solving.

Android TV Development – Big Screens Are Coming, Get Ready!

Google wants to bring Android to everything from phones and watches to cars and smart television sets. Unlike Google TV, Android TV is much closer to standard Android. It runs Android 5.0 (at least in the initial launch version) and can be used on new TVs, as well as on standalone devices.

Android TV is not just about improving the way people consume TV content, it’s more about changing the way they do it.

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Nermin Hajdarbegovic

Nermin Hajdarbegovic

As a veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrency.

Business Intelligence Platform: Tutorial Using MongoDB Aggregation Pipeline

In today’s data-driven world, researchers are busy answering interesting questions by churning through huge volumes of data. Some obvious challenges they face are due to the sheer size of the dataset they have to deal with. In this article, we take a peek at a simple business intelligence platform implemented on top of the MongoDB Aggregation Pipeline.

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Avinash Kaza

Avinash Kaza

Avinash is a senior developer with experience designing & developing data visualizations.

Smartwatch Development: Are Smartwatches Worth the Trouble?

While the Apple Watch is on track to be a commercial success for Apple and its shareholders, technologists are still not entirely convinced smartwatches have what it takes to conquer the market, at least not yet.

What does this mean for developers? What are the implications for other smartwatch platforms and companies behind them?

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Nermin Hajdarbegovic

Nermin Hajdarbegovic

As a veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrency.

Full Text Search of Dialogues with Apache Lucene: A Tutorial

Apache Lucene is a powerful Java library used for implementing full-text search on a corpus of text. With its wide array of configuration options and customizability, it is possible to tune Apache Lucene specifically to the corpus at hand - improving both search quality and query capability.

This article gives us a glimpse of the simplicity and ease of customization of the Apache Lucene analysis pipeline.

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Doug Sparling

Doug Sparling

Doug has almost 10 years of experience on the JVM platform and Ruby and has also worked on multiple Android apps.

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Gabriel Courtemanche

Gabriel is a highly efficient and reliable professional who possesses a broad skill set for web application development. He's been working on a range of products and clients—from working on scalability problems in production engineering teams at Shopify and Autodesk to launching new applications for startups. Most of his work consists of leading technical teams, by creating an easy development environment, fixing technical debts, providing best practices code examples, and mentoring devs.
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