Microsoft's Azure ML Studio vs Python

Azure Machine Learning Studio is a complete drag and drop based tool where the different steps involved in machine learning algorithms are in built blocks. Those blocks can be utilised to solve a machine learning problem from importing the data, processing the data, fitting the model and evaluating the model. Azure is inbuilt with few testing datasets already available to experience different machine learning algorithms on data and few image processing applications. Azure tool does not need any prior knowledge about the machine learning algorithms to test the output and there is a 8hr free trial period given to users to test its usability.

Whereas Python is a open source software which can develop Machine Learning algorithms using tools like SKlearn and Keras.

Ofcourse, Knowing the usage of different tools and platforms is an additional skill, but the ability to understand the ground knowledge of the algorithms very well will give tremendous long term value experience. Python has a special place in the hearts of the programmers for visualizing data even though very popular tools like Tableau, PowerBI which are effective tools for visualizing the data are available.

Suggesting starters with Microsoft's Azure ML STUDIO for machine learning experience would be fine. If deeper knowledge on algorithms needed Python will do.