Microsoft joins the SciKit-learn Consortium

As part of our ongoing commitment to open and interoperable artificial intelligence, Microsoft has joined the SciKit-learn consortium as a platinum member and released tools to enable increased usage of SciKit-learn pipelines. Initially launched in 2007 by members of the Python scientific community, SciKit-learn has attracted a large community of active developers who have turned it into a first class, open source library used by many companies and individuals around the world for scenarios ranging from fraud detection to process optimization. Following SciKit-learn's remarkable success, the SciKit-learn consortium was launched in September 2018 by Inria, the French national institute for research in computer science, to foster growth and sustainability of the library, employing central contributors to maintain high standards and develop new features. We are extremely supportive of what the SciKit-learn community has accomplished so far and want to see it continue to thrive and expand. By joining the newly formed SciKit-learn consortium, we will support central contributors to ensure that SciKit-learn remains a high-quality project while also tackling new features in conjunction with the fabulous community of users and developers.