Unveiling Microsoft Fabric: Revolutionising the future of computing

Microsoft Fabric is a visionary project that aims to reimagine the fundamental building blocks of computing infrastructure, including specialised hardware, software, and cloud-based services. This ambitious initiative from Microsoft aligns with their comprehensive suite of data-driven offerings, such as Azure Data Factory and Power BI. By leveraging these cutting-edge technologies, Microsoft Fabric has the potential to unlock unprecedented performance, efficiency, and scalability across a wide variety of applications and workloads

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Data Mesh - The future for data led organisations

The main obstacle with any developed data analytics function is the bottleneck of data and skillset – the more central intelligence you have, the more outer teams want to use it, so you need to find a way of allowing data and insights to flow.

If data is so complex that only your highly paid data wizards, how can make sense of it?

Here’s one methodology that we’ll discuss in detail, the Data Mesh:

  1. A decentralised data structure with domain/product teams who own the analytical and operational data:

  2. Self-serve infrastructure, data products and federated governance.

  3. A data-driven decision-making culture across the organisation.

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Using data to predict movie ratings

With the Oscars just round the corner (March 12th), it seems fitting to keep on top of the latest movies and see if data can help find the diamonds in the rough!

In my previous article I looked at upcoming sequels, with a lens of which movies would come out on top. A question that kept coming back was “can we predict how non sequel movies are going to do (rating wise)?”

Where there is data, we find an answer!

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