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F# for Machine Learning Essentials

By : Sudipta Mukherjee
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F# for Machine Learning Essentials

By: Sudipta Mukherjee

Overview of this book

The F# functional programming language enables developers to write simple code to solve complex problems. With F#, developers create consistent and predictable programs that are easier to test and reuse, simpler to parallelize, and are less prone to bugs. If you want to learn how to use F# to build machine learning systems, then this is the book you want. Starting with an introduction to the several categories on machine learning, you will quickly learn to implement time-tested, supervised learning algorithms. You will gradually move on to solving problems on predicting housing pricing using Regression Analysis. You will then learn to use Accord.NET to implement SVM techniques and clustering. You will also learn to build a recommender system for your e-commerce site from scratch. Finally, you will dive into advanced topics such as implementing neural network algorithms while performing sentiment analysis on your data.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
F# for Machine Learning Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Multiclass classification using decision trees


In Chapter 1, Introduction to Machine Learning, you saw how decision trees work to find several classes among unseen datasets. In the following section, you will see how to use WekaSharp, which is a wrapper on top of Weka to be used in a F# friendly way. Weka is an open source project for data mining and machine learning, written in Java (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/).

Obtaining and using WekaSharp

You can download WekaSharp from https://wekasharp.codeplex.com/. Then you have to add the following DLLs in your F# application, as shown next:

In this example, you will see how to use WekaSharp to classify the iris flowers.

module DecisionTreesByWeka.Main

open System
open WekaSharp.Common
open WekaSharp.Classify
open WekaSharp.Dataset
open WekaSharp.Eval


[<EntryPoint>]
let main args = 
    let iris =            
            @"C:\iris.csv"
            |> WekaSharp.Dataset.readArff
            |> WekaSharp.Dataset.setClassIndexWithLastAttribute...