I just got back from Atlanta, the host of the Microsoft Machine Learning and Data Science Summit. This was the first year for this new conference, and it was a blast: the energy from the 1,000 attendees was palpable. I covered Joseph Sirosh's keynote presentation yesterday, but today I wanted to highlight a few other talks from the program now that the recordings are available to stream. But for me personally, the highlight of the event was the keynote presentation by Dr Edward Tufte on the Future of Data Analysis. I had the distinct honour of introducing Dr Tufte to the stage, who has long been a hero of mine. Please enjoy his presentation, embedded below.

This post is authored by Jennifer Marsman, Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. The first Microsoft Data Science Summit will take place on Sept 26-27, 2016 in Atlanta, GA, at the same time as Ignite. This means that you have access to the amazing Ignite Expo hall, in addition to the fabulous speakers and content catered just to data scientists, machine learning developers, and big data engineers. For more information on how the co-location with Ignite will work and what you have access to, please see here. I will be speaking on the Microsoft Cognitive Services.

Microsoft has a brand-new conference, exclusively for data scientists, big data engineers, and machine learning practitioners. The Microsoft Data Science Summit, to be held in Atlanta GA, September 26-27, will feature talks and lab sessions from Microsoft engineers and thought leaders on using data science techniques and Microsoft technology, applied to real-world problems. Other topics of interest include building with bot frameworks, deep learning, Internet of Things applications, and in-depth Data Science topics. To register for the conference, follow the link below. Discounted day passes to Microsoft Ignite on September 28-29 are also available to Microsoft Data Summit registrants.