Tools to Working from home in Sri Lanka.
Working from home is getting more important in these days due to lockdowns in many countries. Following free and paid tools helps you to manage your work efficiently at home.
Skype
We all know Skype for conference calls, instant messaging with clients or chat rooms. But if you haven’t been using it for business, you may have missed out on some new functionalities. Record Skype calls to capture key decisions, and use live subtitles to read the words spoken. Easily share presentations, images, or anything on your screen during a call with integrated screen sharing. Access one skype account across multiple devices—even Alexa!
Slack
Slack is the communication tool that brings remote teams together. The platform organizes conversations into channels, which team members can join and leave, as needed, so nobody receives messages or notifications irrelevant to them. Conversations can also be had in threads, which keep messages outside of the main channel so chats don’t get in the way of main topics and projects.
Key features
• Instant messaging: Live communication between every team member for seamless collaboration.
• Statuses: Users can set availability statuses to focus on individual tasks as needed.
• File sharing: Drag-and-drop file sharing for PDFs, images, videos and other common files types.
• Voice & video calls: Voice and video calls directly from within Slack.
• Screen sharing: Allows team members to show their work to others in real-time for stronger collaboration.
GoToMeeting
GoToMeeting is a web-hosted service created and marketed by LogMeIn. It is an online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software package that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real time.
Zoom
Zoom is a suite of video conferencing and communication tools designed for remote teams, virtual businesses conferences, webinars and other corporate purposes. We use Zoom for our virtual meetings, which we can use to run video and voice calls, but it’s capable of much more than this.
Key features
· Video meetings: Remote teams can run video meetings and one-to-one video calls.
· Voice calls: You can also run group or one-to-one voice calls when face-to-face meetings aren’t necessary.
· Webinars: You can also use Zoom to host webinars.
· Messaging: Team members can send messages using Zoom.
· File sharing: Share files during and outside of video/voice chats for collaboration between members.
Microsoft Teams
Teams is a chat-based collaboration tool that provides global, remote, and dispersed teams with the ability to work together and share information via a common space. You can utilize cool features like document collaboration, one-on-one chat, team chat, and more. Microsoft Teams is also fully integrated with many other Office 365 services, such as Skype, SharePoint, Exchange, and Yammer.
https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/work-remotely
Team viewer
TeamViewer is a remote access software that allows desktop sharing and file transfer. It is an exceptionally secure software that does not disturb the functioning of existing firewall or antivirus in your system. TeamViewer 14 protects your data simultaneously while you are sharing your desktop screen through remote access.
TeamViewer helps in increasing your output significantly. The remote access software helps in sharing files while your system is on the screen sharing mode.
Features of TeamViewer 14
• Advanced Device Grouping
• One-Click Remote
• Optimized for macOS
• Custom Device Information
• Performance stability on low bandwidth
• Improved connection quality
• QuickSupport for service camp integration
https://www.teamviewer.com/en/
Cisco Webex
Cisco Webex is a cloud-based collaboration suite comprised of Webex Meetings, Webex Teams and Webex Devices. The Webex suite is a merger of Cisco’s WebEx web conferencing platform and Cisco Spark team collaboration app. The services rebranded under Webex in April 2018 to centralize Cisco’s collaboration portfolio.
Features of Cisco Webex
• HD Video Conferencing
• Platform Versatility and Data Protection
• Secure Online Meetings Anywhere
• Integrated Communication
• Easily Share Desktops and Documents
Data Science and Machine Learning March 2020 Workshop Sri Lanka.
Few weeks ago I had conducted the workshop on Data Science and Machine Learning.
Around 12 attended the workshop.Employees from Stretch line,Enso,Sri Lanka Insurance (SLIC),Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority
and Attune came to the event.
Topic covered at the workshop-
https://uditha.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/big-data-and-machine-learning-workshop-sri-lanka/
For Training Requirement Contact-
Applying Machine Learning for COVID-19 Dataset.
Kaggle recently released dataset for COVID-19.
Dataset Description
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House and a coalition of leading research groups have prepared the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). CORD-19 is a resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles, including over 13,000 with full text, about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and related coronaviruses. This freely available dataset is provided to the global research community to apply recent advances in natural language processing and other AI techniques to generate new insights in support of the ongoing fight against this infectious disease. There is a growing urgency for these approaches because of the rapid acceleration in new coronavirus literature, making it difficult for the medical research community to keep up.
Call to Action
We are issuing a call to action to the world’s artificial intelligence experts to develop text and data mining tools that can help the medical community develop answers to high priority scientific questions. The CORD-19 dataset represents the most extensive machine-readable coronavirus literature collection available for data mining to date. This allows the worldwide AI research community the opportunity to apply text and data mining approaches to find answers to questions within, and connect insights across, this content in support of the ongoing COVID-19 response efforts worldwide. There is a growing urgency for these approaches because of the rapid increase in coronavirus literature, making it difficult for the medical community to keep up.
Most Common Words Experiment –
This experiment analyze common words used in the dataset using Text based ML Algorithms.
Data Science and Machine Learning Workshop Sri Lanka 2020.
https://www.meetup.com/Colombo-AI-Technology-Meetup/events/268774212/
Register URL – https://bit.ly/2NirW2l
Feel free to contact us for any inquiries
uditha bandara – 0716092918
Uditha Bandara (MVP) is specializes in Data Science, Mobile App and Blockchain technologies.
He is the South East Asia`s First XNA/DirectX MVP (Most Valuable Professional).
He had delivered sessions at various events and conferences in Hong Kong, Malaysia,
Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India. He has published several books,articles,
tutorials, and demos on his Blog – https://uditha.wordpress.com
Global AI Bootcamp 2019 , Singapore.
Recently I did Machine learning session at Global AI Bootcamp ,Singapore.
Building Product Recommendation using Azure Machine Learning
by Uditha
Recommender systems are one of the most successful and widespread application of machine learning technologies in business.
This session will focus on building a Product Recommendation System using Azure Machine Learning and deploying as a web service.
Azure Machine Learning and AI Workshop at COMAT Singapore.
Recently I did Azure Machine Learning workshop at COMAT Singapore.
Topics Covered –
– Introduction to Machine Learning.
– Introduction to Azure Machine Learning.
– Predicting Employee Churn using AML.
Around 25 IT professionals and students attended my session.
Machine learning for beginners: Azure AI Book.
My new book Machine Learning for beginners: Azure AI now available on Amazon Kindle version and print version.
Book Details –
Machine learning for beginner’s book provides getting started knowledge about machine learning projects.
Based on Azure AI technologies this book will go through Regression, Classification and Product Recommendations.
This book also provides python basic coding experiments toward machine learning and data science.
Topics Covered-
Introduction to Azure AI & Machine Learning
Regression
Classification
Matchbox Recommendations
Azure Machine Learning Web services
R and Python Integration
Python Cloud Notebook
Print Edition.
https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-beginners-Azure-AI/dp/1686820356/
Kindle Version.
https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-beginners-Azure-AI-ebook/dp/B07WKBVWPW/
Data Science Lecturing at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT).
Recently I had conducted Data Science Lecturing at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology for Data Science batch.
Lecturing was span across six week for 40 students covering following topics –
- Introduction to Spyder IDE, Jupiter Notebook with Python basics
- Azure Machine Learning
- Python Data science libraries / Pandas /Scikit Learn
- Introduction to tenser flow basics
- Basic Neural Networks using tenser flow
Azure Machine Learning and AI Workshop at COMAT Singapore.
Recently I did Azure Machine Learning workshop at COMAT Singapore subsidiary of ST Engineering.
Topics Covered –
– Introduction to Machine Learning.
– Introduction to Azure Machine Learning.
– Predicting Employee Churn using AML.
Around 25 IT professionals and students attended my session.
Azure Machine Learning and AI Workshop at University of Colombo.
Recently I did Azure Machine Learning workshop at University of Colombo.
Topics Covered –
– Introduction to Machine Learning.
– Introduction to Azure Machine Learning.
– Predicting Employee Churn using AML.
Around 40 final year students attended my session.
Global Azure Bootcamp 2019 – Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Recently I did Machine Learning session at Global Azure Bootcamp 2019 –Colombo.
Session Topic- Building a Product Recommendation System using Azure Machine Learning
Session Description-
Recommender systems are one of the most successful and widespread application of machine learning technologies in business .
This session will focus on building a Product Recommendation System using Azure Machine Learning and deploying as a web service.
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio is a collaborative tool use to build, test, and deploy predictive analytics solutions on your data.
Machine Learning Studio publishes models as web services that can easily be consumed by custom apps or BI tools.
Around 70 attended the session.
Event details-
https://gabccolombo.azurewebsites.net/
