This folder contains hands-on labs introducing some of the tools available in Azure and in Azure Cognitive Services for building intelligent bots and applications backed by AI and machine learning. Learn how to build machine-learning models with Azure Machine Learning Studio and connect to them from client apps, build neural networks with the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, train deep neural networks to recognize objects in images with the Custom Vision Service, and more.
| Lab | Scenario | Technology/Language | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure Bot Service | Find this lab on Microsoft Learn here. Build an intelligent chat bot using JavaScript and Node.js, deploy it to Azure, and converse with it using Skype. |
Azure Bot Service Microsoft QnA Maker JavaScript |
$$ |
| Azure Machine Learning | Build a machine-learning model that recognizes handwritten digits. Then deploy it as a Web service and build a client app that connects to it and identifies the digits that you draw. | Azure Machine Learning Studio JavaScript or C# |
$$ |
| Azure Notebooks | Create a Jupyter notebook to analyze climate data and use popular libraries such as scikit-learn, NumPy, and Seaborn to extract information from the data and create visualizations. | Azure Notebooks scikit-learn Python |
free |
| Cognitive Toolkit | Use the MNIST database to train a neural network built with the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit to recognize handwritten digits. | Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Python |
free |
| Custom Vision Service | Find this lab on Microsoft Learn here. Train a neural network to recognize famous paintings. Then build a Node.js app that uses the network to identify the artists of paintings that you upload. |
Custom Vision Service JavaScript |
free |
| Keras | Build a neural network and train it to analyze text for sentiment. | Azure Notebooks Keras Python |
free |
| LUIS | Build a language-understanding model with the Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS). Then deploy a bot that uses the model to respond to commands such as "Get the latest news about Microsoft." | Microsoft LUIS JavaScript |
free |
| TensorFlow | Build a deep neural network that identifies images containing hot dogs, and build a Python app that uses it. | Data Science VM TensorFlow Python |
$$ |
| Video Indexer | Index a collection of videos and extract insights such as people in the videos, topics discussed in the videos, and video transcripts. Then deploy a Node.js app that makes video content searchable. | Video Indexer JavaScript |
free |