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Hands-On Machine Learning with ML.NET

By : Jarred Capellman
Book Image

Hands-On Machine Learning with ML.NET

By: Jarred Capellman

Overview of this book

Machine learning (ML) is widely used in many industries such as science, healthcare, and research and its popularity is only growing. In March 2018, Microsoft introduced ML.NET to help .NET enthusiasts in working with ML. With this book, you’ll explore how to build ML.NET applications with the various ML models available using C# code. The book starts by giving you an overview of ML and the types of ML algorithms used, along with covering what ML.NET is and why you need it to build ML apps. You’ll then explore the ML.NET framework, its components, and APIs. The book will serve as a practical guide to helping you build smart apps using the ML.NET library. You’ll gradually become well versed in how to implement ML algorithms such as regression, classification, and clustering with real-world examples and datasets. Each chapter will cover the practical implementation, showing you how to implement ML within .NET applications. You’ll also learn to integrate TensorFlow in ML.NET applications. Later you’ll discover how to store the regression model housing price prediction result to the database and display the real-time predicted results from the database on your web application using ASP.NET Core Blazor and SignalR. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to confidently perform basic to advanced-level machine learning tasks in ML.NET.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Fundamentals of Machine Learning and ML.NET
4
Section 2: ML.NET Models
10
Section 3: Real-World Integrations with ML.NET
14
Section 4: Extending ML.NET

Creating the clustering application

As mentioned earlier, the application we will be creating is a file type classifier. Given a set of attributes statically extracted from a file, the prediction will return if it is a document, an executable, or a script. For those of you who have used the Linux file command, this is a simplified version but based on machine learning. The attributes included in this example aren't the definitive list of attributes, nor should they be used as-is in a production environment; however, you could use this as a starting point for creating a true ML-based replacement for the Linux file command.

As with previous chapters, the completed project code, sample dataset, and project files can be downloaded here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Machine-Learning-With-ML.NET/tree/master/chapter05.

Exploring the project architecture

Building on the project architecture and code we created in previous chapters, the major change architecturally is in the...