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Data Science with .NET and Polyglot Notebooks

Data Science with .NET and Polyglot Notebooks

By : Matt Eland
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Data Science with .NET and Polyglot Notebooks

Data Science with .NET and Polyglot Notebooks

By: Matt Eland

Overview of this book

As the fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence rapidly evolve, .NET developers are eager to leverage their expertise to dive into these exciting domains but are often unsure of how to do so. Data Science in .NET with Polyglot Notebooks is the practical guide you need to seamlessly bring your .NET skills into the world of analytics and AI. With Microsoft’s .NET platform now robustly supporting machine learning and AI tasks, the introduction of tools such as .NET Interactive kernels and Polyglot Notebooks has opened up a world of possibilities for .NET developers. This book empowers you to harness the full potential of these cutting-edge technologies, guiding you through hands-on experiments that illustrate key concepts and principles. Through a series of interactive notebooks, you’ll not only master technical processes but also discover how to integrate these new skills into your current role or pivot to exciting opportunities in the data science field. By the end of the book, you’ll have acquired the necessary knowledge and confidence to apply cutting-edge data science techniques and deliver impactful solutions within the .NET ecosystem.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Part 1: Data Analysis in Polyglot Notebooks
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Part 2: Machine Learning with Polyglot Notebooks and ML.NET
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Part 3: Exploring Generative AI with Polyglot Notebooks
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Part 4: Polyglot Notebooks in the Enterprise

Reading CSV data

If you’ve not worked with CSV files before, CSV stands for comma-separated values. A CSV file, therefore, is a file consisting of individual rows of data, with each field within a row broken up by a comma.

Understanding CSV data

An example of a CSV file for a list of football players is shown here:

First,Last,Pos,Num,Club,Nation,RightFoot?,Height,RookieYear
Fidel,Yost,Midfielder,74,Houston Niners,Serbia,True,163,2022
Annetta,Preslo,Midfielder,30,Code Monekys,Guam,True,175,2019
Lance,Casper,Sweeper,49,Purple Cobras,Maldives,True,180,2019
Tom,Wolf,Left Back,48,Houston Niners,Egypt,False,177,2017
Gillian,Pouros,Sweeper,86,Code Monkeys,Canada,False,185,2020

Here, the first row acts as a header and identifies what each value represents in the subsequent row. We then have five additional rows representing individual players.

Most spreadsheet software and text editors can work with CSV files. Additionally, the major relational databases support exporting...

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