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* Software as a Service (SaaS): users get access to software applications over the Internet, on demand and typically on a subscription basis. Users don’t need to worry about hosting and managing the software application, the underlying infrastructure or the maintenance, like software upgrades and security patching.
* Software as a Service (SaaS): users get access to software applications over the Internet, on demand and typically on a subscription basis. Users don’t need to worry about hosting and managing the software application, the underlying infrastructure or the maintenance, like software upgrades and security patching.
Some of the largest Cloud providers are Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
Some of the largest Cloud providers are Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
## Why Choose the Cloud for Data Science?
## Why Choose the Cloud for Data Science?
Developers and IT professionals chose to work with the Cloud for many reasons, including the following:
Developers and IT professionals chose to work with the Cloud for many reasons, including the following:
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* Start the job
* Start the job
To view the full process, check out the [documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-twitter-sentiment-analysis-trends?WT.mc_id=academic-40229-cxa&ocid=AID30411099).
To view the full process, check out the [documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-twitter-sentiment-analysis-trends?WT.mc_id=academic-40229-cxa&ocid=AID30411099).
### Scientific papers analysis
### Scientific papers analysis
Let’s take another example of a project created by [Dmitry Soshnikov](http://soshnikov.com), one of the authors of this curriculum.
Let’s take another example of a project created by [Dmitry Soshnikov](http://soshnikov.com), one of the authors of this curriculum.
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To see the full process, visit [Dmitry’s blog](https://soshnikov.com/science/analyzing-medical-papers-with-azure-and-text-analytics-for-health/).
To see the full process, visit [Dmitry’s blog](https://soshnikov.com/science/analyzing-medical-papers-with-azure-and-text-analytics-for-health/).
As you can see, we can leverage Cloud services in many ways to perform Data Science.
As you can see, we can leverage Cloud services in many ways to perform Data Science.
In this lesson you learned that there are several important cloud providers. Do some market research to discover what each can offer to the Data Scientist. Are the offerings comparable? Write a paper to describe the offerings of three or more of these cloud providers.
## Rubric
## Rubric
Exemplary | Adequate | Needs Improvement
Exemplary | Adequate | Needs Improvement
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A one page paper describes three cloud providers' data science offerings and differentiates between them. | A shorter paper is presented | A paper is presented without completing the analysis