Setting Up the ML.NET Environment

Now that you have a firm grasp of the basics of machine learning, an understanding of what Microsoft's ML.NET is, and what it provides, it is time to train and create your first machine learning model! We will be building a simple restaurant sentiment analysis model based on reviews and integrating this model into a simple .NET Core application. Before we can jump into training and creating our model, we will first have to configure the development environment.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Setting up your development environment
• Creating your first model, from start to finish, with ML.NET
• Evaluating the model