March 15, 2016 Email - passbavc@sqlpass.org PASS BA Virtual Chapter Presents: “Building systems to retain valuable clients (CHURN) with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning” March 15, 2016 Email - passbavc@sqlpass.org

PASS Business Analytics Virtual Chapter Chapter Leader – Dan English Dan is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, author, on the leadership team for the MN Microsoft BI User Group, and is the Senior Data Warehouse Architect at Constellation, Inc. in MN. Chapter Co-Leader – Paras Doshi Paras started out with the chapter as VP of marketing helping double the membership base in 9 months and then transitioned into his current leadership role. Paras is passionate about helping businesses extract valuable insights from data and currently works as BI Architect at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals PASS Business Analytics Virtual Chapter http://tinyurl.com/linkedinpassbavc Twitter handle @passbavc https://twitter.com/passbavc YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PASSBAVC

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Select Virtual Chapter Meetings more local and global events found at sqlpass.org/events MEETING DATE TOPIC Business Intelligence Mar 15 12:00-13:00 UTC-05:00 Power BI Report Authoring: creating Advanced content presented by Kevin Goff Business Analytics Mar 15 14:00-15:00 UTC-05:00 Building systems to retain valuable clients (CHURN) with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning presented by Prof. Giuseppe Mascarella In Memory Mar 15 18:00-19:00 UTC Memory-optimized tables for SQL 2014 and 2016 presented by George Walters PowerShell Mar 16 17:00-18:00 UTC Documenting SQL Server with PowerShell presented by Sander Stad Data Science Mar 17 13:00-14:00 UTC-05:00 Scoring and retraining ML models using managed data pipelines presented by Sonia Carlson Saturday Night SQL Mar 19 21:00-22:00 UTC-05:00 Introducing SQL/Server Data Tool using Visual Studio 2015 presented by Peter Lu Professional Development Mar 21 18:00-19:00 UTC Be a Role Model for Women in Tech through Blogging presented by Mickey Stuewe

Select Virtual Chapter Meetings more local and global events found at sqlpass.org/events MEETING DATE TOPIC Global Italian Mar 23 21:00-22:00 UTC+01:00 Perchè i programmatori amano anche i database NoSql? presented by Marco Parenzan Excel Business Intelligence Mar 24 12:00-13:00 UTC-06:00 Dustin Ryan presents What's New in Power BI presented by Dustin Ryan Global Portuguese Mar 24 21:00-22:30 UTC-03:00 Do ERP ao BI - Conheça na prática um projeto de Business Intelligence presented by Wasley Portes

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