The http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com website introduces the reader to F# and shows how F# can help in the day-to-day development of mainstream commercial business software. These frequently updated resources provide a collection of slides and videos, and an excellent article series on F#. The topics include, but are not limited to, F# versus C#, language conciseness, handling types, design patterns, immutability, concurrency, DDD (Domain Driven Design), and TDD (Test Driven Development).

Data science is a thriving field which deals with the application and study of machine learning algorithms on real-world data sets. These datasets can be quite large, and creative techniques of statistical analysis have to be used to provide understandable results via visualization. Being a functional language, F# is an excellent resource for data science programming...