Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will reach $1T market cap

Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by mastazi on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:47PM (#16684170)

Desktop email clients like Outlook let you do things such as: select all email messages -> save as .txt -> feed the .txt to a python script that extracts useful data.

If we were using GSuite I guess we could use the Gmail API to get the message body data, but at the end of the day having local access is just more convenient (edit: faster).

Edit: for everything else that is not email (spreadsheet, word processor, presentations) there are also similar advantages related to having full fledged desktop applications.

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by matt_wulfeck on Monday March 26, 2018 @09:16PM (#16684310)

Interesting use case. What exactly are you extracting from email that you’d need a python script for computing?

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by mastazi on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:44PM (#16684747)

We do clustering on unstructured text and we output data in a Jupyter notebook. It's a proof of concept for now and the production pipeline will be a bit different. The whole Python ecosystem is awesome for this type of prototyping.

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by rubidium on Monday March 26, 2018 @09:37PM (#16684404)

And that you couldn't easily do with Microsoft flow and office 365?

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by mastazi on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:44PM (#16684750)

See my response to parent

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