Free ebook: Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016

We're happy to announce the availability of a new free ebook, Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (ISBN 9781509304318), by Buck Woody, Danielle Dean, Debraj GuhaThakurta, Gagan Bansal, Matt Conners, & Wee-Hyong Tok. The world around us, every business and nearly every industry, is being transformed by technology. This disruption is driven, in part, by the intersection of three trends: a massive explosion of data, intelligence from machine learning and advanced analytics, and the economics and agility of cloud computing. While databases power nearly every aspect of business today, they were not originally designed with this disruption in mind. Traditional databases were about recording and retrieving transactions such as orders and payments very reliably, very securely and efficiently.