Pies, Lies and AIs

Exploring the world of data and organisational intransigence

azurecoder

Jul 234 min read

Richard vs the Microsoft Speech SDK round 2

When the Python Speech SDK fails on Linux

azurecoder

Jul 207 min read

AI and complex code. Meh!

dazfuller

May 1, 20222 min read

So since writing the original post about how to drop a SQL table from a Spark Notebook I've been meaning to follow it up with a version...

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dazfuller

Oct 21, 20214 min read

For the Python version of the code below, see the follow-up post. One of the nice things with Spark Pools in Azure Synapse Analytics is...

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dazfuller

Aug 26, 20216 min read

So a slight departure from Spark (sort of) for this post, but I wanted to look at one of the most commonly overlooked aspects of building...

dazfuller

Jul 24, 20219 min read

Having recently released the Excel data source for Spark 3, I wanted to follow up with a "lets use it to process some Excel data" post....

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dazfuller

Feb 15, 20216 min read

The command line is a powerful environment that lets you do a lot of work quickly, easily, and in a repeatable way