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From local Spark to Azure Synapse
Intro In the last entry we laid out an Apache Spark foundation locally to our laptop, using some Docker containers. This time around, let’s look at what a Cloud-based alternative can look like. We’re going to have a look at Azure Synapse. Many things in one service That’s what is advertised. And being cloud based,…
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Working with MS SQL
Intro So in the past I’ve looked into Postgres and/or (a bit of) MongoDB. Both nice alternatives to consider! But in some cases, one has to use other flavours of SQL, say in some corporate settings: Think for instance Oracle, or MS SQL Server, or if you’re Cloud inclined… Azure SQL 😉 One of the…
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NLP (3/n): Parts of Speech Tagging
Intro So I’ve been working on other things lately, but I wanted to keep improving/practicing a bit with the NLP concepts. As I mentioned already, I spent a bit of my (little) spare time to review concepts. One book I am finding I rely heavily upon is “Mastering Text Mining with R”, from the Packt…