Power BI Competition for 10 to 14 year old kids -- Batch 3

Yesterday we concluded the 14 week Databases and Data Visualisation course with a Power BI Competition for #kids

Thank you Reza Rad and Leila Etaati for being the judges for this competition. 12 kids presented various visualisations done in #powerbi. The topics ranged from avocado, cereals, candy to a variety of sport topics that included, soccer and arsenal Find below some of the photos of the event. Thank you Govardhani Tammina Indira Bandari Medha Bandari and Harshavardhan tammina for all the help that you have extended to make this a great success

#powerbi #powerbicompetition #kidstechnz

Tagging some of the parents Rajani Amuda, Raj Duptala CA, Achhi Burra, Shamiso Nyoni, Latha Numburi, Rekha Sayapparaju,

Thanks for all your support

Free Coding classes for 5 to 9 year old -- week 2 update

Following on from my LinkedIn post last week, I had several of the parents contact me to train their kids to learn the coding basics.  I have accepted a few additional kids and conducted the first session on Saturday so that they can get up to speed when they attend the regular session for week 2 on Monday.

There were 12 kids who attended week 2 course.  This week we covered what Pair Progranning is.  What the Do's and Don'ts are in a Pair Programming scenario.  Now the kids started using blockly to drag and drop and get the object move and get to the destination.  I have also introduced the concept of how to debug step by step and how to use the Repeat block.  Kids were quite comfortable when using the repeat block. 

In the class we started Lesson 6 and the home work was to complete all the exercises in Lesson 6.

Here are some photos fro the session.

Coding basics class for 5 to 9 year old kids

Yesterday I have started my first round of technology classes for kids.  This time I have started coding classes for 5 to 9 year old kids.  The inspiration came from the interest showed by my 5 year old daughter Veda  when I introduced her to code.org

I introduced code.org basics to about 8 kids in an online class.  They clearly understood the 3 rules when they start these classes which are outlined as below

• Ask your parents if you want to go online
• Only talk to people you know on the internet
• Stick to places that are right for you on the internet

The parents were helping their kids to get them signed up and teaching them how to share their screen if they are stuck.

All the kids enjoyed the session yesterday.  I am planning to continue this for 6 weeks and see what they understand.  Some photos from the session below

Nurturing women data scientists- International womens day

Yesterday Leila Etaati and I ran a  Azure Machine Learning workshop for Women Data Scientists in Auckland.

The topics covered in this workshop are as below

• Introduction to Machine Learning
• Setting up development environment
• AzureML Experiments using AML Studio and AML Designer
• Develop and Consume AzureML Models
• Automated Machine Learning
• Introduction to R and Python 
• AML in Python Notebook
• Evaluate model performance in AML
• Azure ML Batch Score, Retrain, Production and Automatization
• Recommendation System
• Azure Cognitive Services Overview

About 16 women attended this workshop and there were great discussions initiated by few of the participants.  Thanks to Sydhir Rawat from Microsoft for the opportunity.  In the end each participant were given a book "Invisible Women"

A few Photos from the event

My presentation at Conferenz event -- 2020 Management Accountant Conference

Today I did two presentations to an entirely  different audience at one of the Conferenz events -- 2020 Management Accountant Conference.  As the conference event indicates, the audience were Accountants and Management Accountants and other financial professionals.

I had two sessions to talk about as below -- About Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence.

I really enjoyed presenting about Azure Cognitive Services and show off Power BI as most of the audience didn't know much about these tools.  Had a great interaction with the audience and it is a really good feeling that they have learnt something new and I could see the excitement in a lot of them as they got to know more about these tools.

Some of the photos from the event below.

My presentation at SQL Saturday Wellington 2020

I enjoyed presenting at SQL Saturday Wellington today on the topic "Empower your Business Apps using Azure Cognitive Services"

Thanks to Anupama Natarajan and the SQL Saturday organising team for this wonderful opportunity.

Here is the link to the slides.  Below is a photo of the women speakers of SQL Saturday in Wellington   Enjoyed interacting and getting to know each and every one of them.

I have given away 1 book titled " AI Crash Course" by   Hadelin-de-ponteves  to 2 of the very interested attendees..  Thanks to Ravit Jain  of @Packt Publication for providing these books to me.  This book is really good for those who are starting to understand what Artificial Intelligence is and would like to know about it.

Difinity Conference Day 2

Day 2 of Difinity had yet some more informative sessions.  I have attended sessions by Dejan Sarka, Anupama Natarajan, Heidi Hasting.

My session today was  "Web Scraping In Power BI".  Really enjoyed presenting to an interactive audience.  Once again thanks to Charles Sterling, I could give away some of the can opener USBs.

Once again I have given away 2 books titled "AI Crash Course" by  Hadelin-de-ponteves  to 2 of the very interested attendees..  Thanks to Ravit Jain of @Packt Publication for providing these books to me.  This book is really good for those who are starting to understand what Artificial Intelligence is and would like to know about it.

Thanks to Reza and Leila for organising this event and also to all the volunteers who have helped in this event.  Some of the photos of my session below

Difinity 2020 Day 1

Difinity2020 Day 1 was an amazing day at Cordis.  It started with Reza introducing the conference followed by the Keynote Power Platform demos by Charles Sterling, Ken Puls, Leila Etaati, John Liu, Heidi Hastings.

Highlight of the sessions that I attended was  Getting-hands-on-with-microsoft-power-virtual-agents  By Charles Sterling

In this session all the attendees got to build a #lowcode bot and publish it within 30 min.

I had an opportunity to present my session Build-your-first-model-with-azure-machine-learning-services   The audience were very responsive to my questions and I am confident that they learnt how to build a Linear Regressoin Model in the 45 min. session.

Thanks Charles Sterling for providing the  gifts for my most interactive participants.

I am also thankful to Ravit Jain of @Packt Publication for providing me with the books titled 'AI Carsh Course' written by Hadelin-de-ponteves to be given to 4 attendees.  This book is really good for those who are starting to understand what Artificial Intelligence is and would like to know about it.

Thanks Ginger Grant, Anupama Natarajan and Leila Etaati for your help with my demo.

Thanks to Reza and Leila for organising this event and also to all the volunteers who have helped in this event.  Some of the photos of my session below

MSIgnite The Tour Sydney Day 2

I really enjoyed being at the Expert Connect sessions  on Day 2 of at #MSIgnitethetour

There were questions about the #Microsoft Azure Starter Pack,

Some questions from Property NSW regarding how to automate the scanning of the  property legal documents into some sort of a database.

Another question was about using Microsoft Forms with Power BI

I also had a very detailed session with Pepe fro cushman and Wakefield regarding how to do a rolling 12 month graph.

Overall enjoyed being there at #MSIgnitethetour and learned a lot of new things.

MSIgnite The Tour Sydney Day 1

I really enjoyed presenting at MSIgnite The Tour Sydney event on Day 1.  I presented two sessions as below :

Session 1:

What will kids teach us when they start loving data

In this session I have shared my learnings from helping kids to learn about databases and data visualisations.  It was amazing to see 590 people register for this theatre session. I was overwhelmed by the response of the people after the session.  More than 10 people lined up with a lot of questions.  Thanks to all those who have asked questions.


Session 2

Top 5 tips for Azure Cognitive services

In this session I have covered the tips around how to test the text analytics and the qnamaker  APIs created in Azure Portal using Postman for Key Phrases Language detection and sentiment analysis.
I have als0 covered how to extract text from images using OCR using Azure cloudshell.
Altogether about 640 attendees have registered to attend.

It was overall a unique experience.  Thanks Shiva Ford for this opportunity.

Special thanks to Sudhir Rawat for his help on getting my demos for the Language detection and qnamaker work just an hour before my session.

Video of my webinar "Webscraping in Power BI"

The video of my webinar on "Webscraping in PowerBI"  is now available on Microsoft Power BI youtube channel.

Here is the link for the same


The presentation materials are at the below link.

https://github.com/indupriya9/webscraping

A review of the book "The Art of CRM By Max Fatouretchi"

Are you thinking of starting a new CRM Project ?
Are you thinking of upgrading your CRM ?
Are you thinking of just learning what lies in a CRM ?
Are you planning to architect any CRM solutions ?

If the answer to any of the above is "YES", then read on ...

This is a review on the book  titled .... "The Art of CRM by Max Fatouretchi "

In this book Max starts off explaining what the key ingredients are for a successful CRM design and he says that there is no single method that can be used in all CRM projects.

Then he goes on and explains how critical it is to know your customer and build a strong 360-degree client view, to enable the customer to improve their product offering and untimely improve their operational costs and revenue.

He also emphasises that the the CRM design that you conceptualise should reflect both the present and future architectural approach you take towards your processes, applications, data, security and deployment decisions that in turn are driven by business requirement.

Based on his vast experience, he also outlined that the Agile methodology has proved to be best suited for modern CRM projects with the technological advances such as AI, Big data and Machine Learning.

He has neatly explained with the case studies and use case examples that AI in combination with CRM processes will improve customer experience and business insights.

In the last chapter, he concluded that the future of CRM will be more like a Lego Model -- consisting of colourful, interlocking, functional modules accompanying an array of gears, connectors and other services that are well integrated.

If you would like to implement a successful cost-effective CRM platform, then I definitely recommend to read this book