Making good predictions from many bad ones

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In this session, you will explore one of these techniques (boosting), and attempt to predict whether a bottle of wine is good or terrible. You will start from scratch, with extremely basic building blocks, and will progressively combine them into more powerful prediction models, making adjustments to reduce what we didn't guess correctly.

Along the way, you will see some of the features that make F# a wonderful language for data exploration and algorithm design, on a real dataset. And once you are done, you'll be able to impress your friends and colleagues with fancy words such as Decision Stumps or Gradient Boosting.

This session is beginners-friendly; no prior knowledge of F# or Machine Learning is required.

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