The aim of this all-day workshop is to familiarize you with the Microsoft Azure public cloud and some of its Big Data and Machine Learning technologies.

At the conclusion of the workshop you should know the following:

• How to navigate Azure and how to spin up new resources to do your work;
   
• Know different data collection and sanitation techniques and technologies;
   
• Have a feel for implementation of machine learning platforms that will facilitate your research aspirations;
   
• How to have fun working with scaled (almost), unlimited cloud resources.