Knowledge base

The war on talent is affecting most industries, but none more than the IT field. It is increasingly difficult to find quality data professionals and to hold onto these talented individuals.

If you want to start a new software project today, you will likely be looking at Python for your codebase. It's easy to use and allows for quick development thanks to the many great third party libraries.

In machine learning, normalization/standardization involves feature scaling, where the features (variables) used for making predictions are scaled to the same range of values. The feature scaling process is applied in the data preprocessing step before applying any machine learning algorithm.

Azure Databricks is an Apache Spark-based analytics service that allows you to build end-to-end machine learning & real-time analytics solutions. Azure Databricks offers all of the components and capabilities of Apache Spark with a possibility to integrate it with other Microsoft Azure services.