Introduction In this blog, we will show you how to build a conversational search application that can interact with Azure Cognitive Search (ACS) and retrieve relevant content from a web-scraped index by asking natural language questions, requesting for summary information, and using vector search. The application will also use OpenAI embeddings, which are pre-trained models […]
Posts Tagged ‘Data Storage’
How to Scrape a Website and Extract its Content
Introduction The web is a vast source of information, but it is not always easy to access and use for natural language applications. In this blog post, we will show you how to crawl and scrape the target URL, extract and clean the content, and store it in Azure Blob Storage. We will use Python […]
Creating Retention Policies for Microsoft Teams (Part 2)
Hello again, and welcome back to part 2 of the “Creating Retention Policies for Microsoft Teams” blog series. Last time we discussed at a high level what retention was, and how it works within Microsoft Teams. This time, we’ll discuss where exactly your data is stored. So let’s start things off by showing you a […]
3 Takeaways from InterConnect 2017’s Opening Keynote
InterConnect officially kicked off this morning with an opening keynote full of powerhouse companies like Twitter, American Airlines, IndieGoGo, and Delos. Throughout the many and varied speakers, a few key themes emerged: 1. The data explosion is an imminent crisis – one that IBM is tackling. Between the Internet of Things and the ever-increasing velocity of […]
Thoughts on DNA and Big Data
DNA – DeoxyriboNucleic Acid – is a molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms… this is the most common text book definition. Soon, a second definition may need to be added to the dictionary, one where DNA equals ‘biological’ storage. As a matter of fact, […]
Cloud: It’s NOT all where it’s at…..
Like my 1st grade teacher would tell me when I ended a sentence with this preposition……”It’s between the ‘A’ and the ‘T’”. Well, in this situation, it’s between the “cloud” and the “on premise”. More and more companies are starting to explore and use Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as a viable option for developing […]