How can I get started with Azure Machine Learning?

This was a question from a university researcher in the Pacific northwest. The good news is our Azure Machine Learning or Azure ML is a powerful native Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering which has been around since 2015. When you think ML many different things fall into this like AI, neural networks, predictive outcomes. Past data is often huge – the quantity of data is doubling about every 18 months and that's only increasing from here. Computers can consider far more variables than a human making the same decision.