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sumitgulwani
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sumitgulwani
5y ago
I absolutely agree with you! The next version of Flash Fill that we are aspiring to build will not only handle a much larger class of transformations, but will hopefully also show you the code, and suggest you corner cases for inspection an
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sumitgulwani
5y ago
Thank you for your feedback. I would love to get more insights into your use cases---we can use them as inspiration as we continue to improve the technology in this space. Please feel free to send us your use cases where Flash Fill fails at
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sumitgulwani
5y ago
You would have to give multiple examples, at least one for each "different kind" of name (for which you would have programmed a different handling logic if you were programming the task yourself---the tool needs to see at least an
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sumitgulwani
5y ago
Our program synthesis APIs are available publicly, but for non-commercial use only. < https://github.com/microsoft/prose > You want to look for API samples corresponding to Transformation.Text capability. This is a
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sumitgulwani
5y ago
Yes, text to Columns would work well for splitting tasks in a very uniform dataset. However, if you want to extract say Lastname from a column containing names some of which may have middle names (i.e., the dataset is not very uniform), the
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sumitgulwani
5y ago
Cool find! The 100-second video segment starting at 10:43 in this link that I am sharing would be more fun: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=421gU482xFE&t=643s >
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sumitgulwani
5y ago
Here's an illustrative demo of the Flash Fill capability. Check out the 3 minute video segment starting at 4:30. < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1YXge3C8RI&t=270s >