Mastering .NET Machine Learning

Chapter 5. Time Out – Obtaining Data

In this chapter, we are going to break from looking at various machine learning models. Instead, we are going to revisit some of the issues that I glossed over in Chapter 2, AdventureWorks Regression, Chapter 3, More AdventureWorks Regression, and Chapter 4, Traffic Stops – Barking Up the Wrong Tree?. We are going to look at different ways in which we can obtain data using Visual Studio and type providers. We will then look at how type providers help us solve problems of missing data, how we can use parallelism to speed up our data extraction, and how we can use type providers on secured web services.

Overview

One of the underappreciated skills that a data scientist must possess is the ability to gather and assimilate ...