18: Azure Cognitive Services: Introduction, Examples, and Training your Data Model

Development Best Practices is old enough to vote!  In this 18th episode we're talking Azure Cognitive Services with Sam Nasr, Microsoft MVP and leader of the Cleveland .NET User Group. Sam gives a good overview of what's happening within the multiple areas of Azure Cognitive Services, an example using LUIS, and best practices in training, and re-training, your data model.

2:45 Best practices in training
3:35 Cognitive Services in a nutshell
5:10 Azure portals for each service
5:55 Language Understanding (LUIS) example
8:20 Using the services without deep knowledge
9:30 Calling the service using REST
10:20 Best practices in training (and re-training) your data model
12:25 Cognitive Services - what data do you get?

Please be sure to listen in a few weeks to Part II of our discussion with Sam, where he'll talk about his experiences, so far, with using cognitive services and his favorite WOW moment.  He'll then share some success stories that he's seen so far and talk through pricing.

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