Summary

We covered a lot of ground in this chapter. We discussed what machine learning is, why you want to learn about it in the .NET stack, how to get up and running using F#, and had a brief introduction to the major open source libraries that we will be using in this book. With all this preparation out of the way, we are ready to start exploring machine learning.

In the next chapter, we will apply our newly found F# skills to create a simple linear regression to see if we can help AdventureWorks improve their sales.