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Power BI Home – Exploring the Features

Power BI has now moved into a preview feature. In a previous post, I spoke about the announcement of Power BI Home and what it means. In this post we will explore using the new home. We can see the welcome message – “Everything you need in one place: Your top visuals are displayed for easy consumption. Your favorites, frequents, and recents are close at hand. And you can explore learning … Continue reading Power BI Home – Exploring the Features

Deep Dive into Comments and @Mentions in Power BI

Power BI announced a new collaborative feature of allowing users to provide comments in dashboards as well as to specific visuals. In this post, we will look at how to use this new feature. First, sign into https://powerbi.com and select an app. We will open the Sales Analytics for Dynamics 365 app: This will open a dashboard: In the toolbar, you will see Comments. Select it: On first selecting, you will … Continue reading Deep Dive into Comments and @Mentions in Power BI

Thinking of Learning Power BI? Check Out My Top Learning Resources

Thinking of learning Power BI? There are plenty of great ways to learn Power BI and get Power BI training. Below is a list of my favorite resources. All are free, except the paid courses as mentioned at the end (no affiliation, but including these for completeness). 1. Guy in a Cube Guy in a Cube is a YouTube Channel by Microsoft employees Adam Saxton and Patrick LeBlanc: The guys do … Continue reading Thinking of Learning Power BI? Check Out My Top Learning Resources

Recognize Your Customers with Face Recognition, Cloud AI, and Dynamics 365

Artificial Intelligence has been influencing how we live for some time. And now more than ever, the tech giants have been competing to win businesses and developers with their AI services. Microsoft is one of these, and through it’s Azure cloud it has been democratizing the power of various AI capabilities for businesses and developers to take advantage of. In previous posts I have blogged about using voice recognition technology … Continue reading Recognize Your Customers with Face Recognition, Cloud AI, and Dynamics 365

Developing with Azure Cognitive Services Face API using C#

In this series, I will show how to use Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services Face API using C#. Signing up for a Microsoft Cognitive Services Subscription Key (Face) – Part 0 Building an Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 1 Face Recognition Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 2 Attribute/Emotion Detection Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 3 – People, Groups and Persisted Faces … Continue reading Developing with Azure Cognitive Services Face API using C#

Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 4 – Verifying Faces and People

In our previous posts we did the following: Face Recognition Attribute/Emotion Detection People, Groups and Persisted Faces In this post we will look at verifying faces to people. Let’s do a few things first. We will add a new Image control to the form next to our original Image1 control. We will call this Image 2. We will move our TextBlock1 to the right. We will also add 2 buttons: … Continue reading Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 4 – Verifying Faces and People

Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 3 – People, Groups and Persisted Faces

Building on our previous posts, in this post we will show how people and groups functionality works, and how to persist faces to Microsoft Azure. In our WPF application, add a new button called Create Person: On pressing this button, we will do the following: We will create a new Person Group, called “My People Group”, using PersonGroup.CreateAsync. We will also set the GUID of this group We will create … Continue reading Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 3 – People, Groups and Persisted Faces

Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 2 Attribute/Emotion Detection

In our previous post, we created an app that recognizes faces in a given image. In this post, we will extend the app to detect face attributes such as the emotions of the person, their hair, makeup etc in the photo. The attributes returned from the service include: Age Blur Emotion Facial Hair Gender Glasses Hair Head Pose Makeup Noise Occlusion Smile Add a TextBlock: Add the face attributes to … Continue reading Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 2 Attribute/Emotion Detection

Building an Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 1 Face Recognition

In this post we will go through an example of using Azure’s Cognitive Services Face Recognition functionality. This app will be built in C# and will take a given photo/image and upload it to Azure Cognitive Services, then determine what are faces within the image using DetectWithStreamAsync, and finally draw a rectangle around those faces. Let’s build the app. First you will need to sign up for an Azure Cognitive Services … Continue reading Building an Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 1 Face Recognition