Azure R Interface

This repository collects demonstration samples that employ Microsoft Azure instances and/or services (e.g., data science virtual machine, cognitive services, etc.) for data analytics via R methods. The R functions/packages introduced in the demos are designed as interfaces to ease the use of Azure resources. The demos can be used as a practical reference that helps data scientists to boost their productivity of using Azure cloud technology all in R environment.

demo 0 - Deployment of Azure resources

• Use of AzureSMR package for deployment of DSVM.
• Set up of SSH environment for the (Linux) DSVMs.

demo 1 - Scalable data analytics on Azure DSVM cluster.

• Use of AzureSMR package for operating Azure instances within R session.
• Scalable analytics on DSVM cluster under Microsoft R Server computing context.
• A predictive maintenance use case is demonstrated.

demo 2 - Sentiment analysis with Microsoft Cognitive Services.

• Apply Microsoft Cognitive Services with cognitiveR package for sentiment analysis on text data.
• Experimental analytics on DSVM with R interface object.
• An employee churn prediction use case is presented.

demo 3 - Coming soon.

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