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Sampling a real-time stream

Sampling a real-time stream

A common problem when working with real-time streams is that you are unaware of the data going in there due to the vast amount of systems connected to it and producing data. Therefor it is interesting to be able to "sample" a stream, where you will connect to

Creating an Azure Data Lake Gen 2 File Browser for the Web

Creating an Azure Data Lake Gen 2 File Browser for the Web

While working with Azure Data Lake Gen 2 (ADLS Gen 2), I saw that one common ask from the people around me is to be able to interact with it through a web portal. As Microsoft we offer customers the chance already to utilize a tool called "Azure Storage

Building a Minecraft Puppet Scanner with Event Hub, a NFC 522 Reader and a Raspberry PI

Building a Minecraft Puppet Scanner with Event Hub, a NFC 522 Reader and a Raspberry PI

In Belgium we every year celebrate the coming of "Sinterklaas" on the 6th of December, a celebration for children where this mythologic figure delivers presents for all the children that behaved well that year. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas for more information). To follow this tradition,

Getting Tweets of multiple people on Twitter

Getting Tweets of multiple people on Twitter

For a new project of mine, I wanted to get the different tweets of multiple people at once and save those as a CSV and JSON for further processing. But how can we do this easily in just a couple of lines? As in every project, I start by assessing

Creating a throttled REST API Consumer

Creating a throttled REST API Consumer

A common thing in Node.js is to create a REST API consumer that will perform a REST call. Due to the rise of many REST APIs, you might find yourself in the situation that you want to execute 1000s of calls (for example: Azure Cognitive Services). Now due to

Abusing the Bing Search API to get access to Data and Visualize it

Abusing the Bing Search API to get access to Data and Visualize it

Introduction These days it's all about the privacy of users, API access to all platforms is being limited and locked down, so that developers are not able to abuse this anymore. This of course works well, but there is still one thing I think they overlooked: Crawlers! Just

Dividing numbers into equal buckets or bins through Bucketization

Dividing numbers into equal buckets or bins through Bucketization

A common practice in Reinforcement Learning is to go from a continuous space towards a discrete space. What does this mean? Take for example a range of numbers between $]-3, 3[$, if we want to represent all the numbers that fit in this range as a state then we would