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Mastering .NET Machine Learning

By : Jamie Dixon, Damian R Mingle
Book Image

Mastering .NET Machine Learning

By: Jamie Dixon, Damian R Mingle

Overview of this book

.Net is one of the widely used platforms for developing applications. With the meteoric rise of Machine learning, developers are now keen on finding out how can they make their .Net applications smarter. Also, .NET developers are interested into moving into the world of devices and how to apply machine learning techniques to, well, machines. This book is packed with real-world examples to easily use machine learning techniques in your business applications. You will begin with introduction to F# and prepare yourselves for machine learning using .NET framework. You will be writing a simple linear regression model using an example which predicts sales of a product. Forming a base with the regression model, you will start using machine learning libraries available in .NET framework such as Math.NET, Numl.NET and Accord.NET with the help of a sample application. You will then move on to writing multiple linear regressions and logistic regressions. You will learn what is open data and the awesomeness of type providers. Next, you are going to address some of the issues that we have been glossing over so far and take a deep dive into obtaining, cleaning, and organizing our data. You will compare the utility of building a KNN and Naive Bayes model to achieve best possible results. Implementation of Kmeans and PCA using Accord.NET and Numl.NET libraries is covered with the help of an example application. We will then look at many of issues confronting creating real-world machine learning models like overfitting and how to combat them using confusion matrixes, scaling, normalization, and feature selection. You will now enter into the world of Neural Networks and move your line of business application to a hybrid scientific application. After you have covered all the above machine learning models, you will see how to deal with very large datasets using MBrace and how to deploy machine learning models to Internet of Thing (IoT) devices so that the machine can learn and adapt on the fly.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering .NET Machine Learning
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Third-party libraries


The following are a few third-party libraries that we will cover in our book later on.

Math.NET

Math.NET is an open source project that was created to augment (and sometimes replace) the functions that are available in System.Math. Its home page is http://www.mathdotnet.com/. We will be using Math.Net's Numerics and Symbolics namespaces in some of the machine learning algorithms that we will write by hand. A nice feature about Math.Net is that it has strong support for F#.

Accord.NET

Accord.NET is an open source project that was created to implement many common machine learning models. Its home page is http://accord-framework.net/. Although the focus of Accord.NET was for computer vision and signal processing, we will be using Accord.Net extensively in this book as it makes it very easy to implement algorithms in our problem domain.

Numl

Numl is an open source project that implements several common machine learning models as experiments. Its home page is http://numl.net/. Numl is newer than any of the other third-party libraries that we will use in the book, so it may not be as extensive as the other ones, but it can be very powerful and helpful in certain situations. We will be using Numl in several chapters of the book.