Code.org Kicks Off Third Annual Hour of Code Initiative

For the third year in a row, the non-profit Code.org is promoting the Hour of Code this week as a way to get more kids interested in programming. This year’s campaign is enlisting the support of pro athletes like Kobe Bryant, the Golden State Warriors Draymond Green, Serena Williams, soccer players from from Real Madrid C.F. and the Seattle Storm’s Sue Bird. “These athletes are role models for students globally and will help reinforce the diversity results of Code.org’s work,” Code.org founder Hadi Partovi said.

More than 300 million students have taken part in Hour of Code events and have written more than 20 billion lines of code. Partovi noted, “An Hour of Code doesn’t prepare a student for a job, but it opens their mind about what they could be when they grow up, and that can make all the difference.”

Add Intelligence to Your Applications with Predictive Analytics

Predictive analytics are a powerful way to add intelligence to an application. It enables you to predict outcomes against data that is new to your application. The Microsoft data platform provides numerous ways you can add predictive analytics to your applications.

What is predictive analytics?

Before we get into the implementation, let’s address a fundamental question: what is predictive analytics? At their core, predictive tasks are those that predict one value given a set of other values as input. In other words, predictive tasks learn (or are taught) how to make predictions. This learning is captured in a model by an algorithm. Think of the model as the way the learnings are compactly… To Continue Click Here….