Summary
In this chapter, we learned in which situations we should use ML and where it is coming from, we understood basic concepts of statistics and the mathematical knowledge we require for ML, and we discovered the steps we need to go through to create a performing ML model. In addition, we had a first glimpse at what is required to operationalize ML projects. This should give a base idea of what ML is about and what we will dive into in this book.
As this book not only covers ML but also the cloud platform Azure, in the next two chapters, we will go deeper into a topic that we have not covered so far—we will speak about tooling for ML. Therefore, in the next chapter, we will discover what Azure has to offer in the form of tools and services for ML, and in the third chapter, we will use the most useful tool to run our first hands-on experimentation with ML on Azure.