Hello, Science! [05/12/17]

Growing Potential

Many individuals jump directly from high school to a full time job, and the longer the amount of time that goes by after graduation, the harder it may be to think about returning to the path of higher education. While not everyone is fully committed to an entirely academic path, most people do agree that training and career develo…
PQL–A Probabilistic Query Language

At MSR and Bing, when we do machine learning on smaller datasets (say anything below 100GB) we often use relational databases and SQL. Throw in a little bit of Excel and R and you’ve got yourself a very powerful platform for exploratory data analysis. After the exploratory phase, we often build statistical models (adPredictor, Tru…