Preparing the environment

Before we can start learning about Azure ML integration with Azure Synapse, we need to prepare the environment to run ML operations on Azure Synapse, by creating some resources on Azure.

Creating a Text Analytics resource in the Azure portal

Text analytics is an AI service that is used to discover insights such as sentiment, entities, key phrases, and so on, in unstructured text. This resource will be used for performing sentiment analysis on data using a Synapse Spark pool in the Sentiment analysis section.

You can go through the following steps to create a Text Analytics resource in the Azure portal:

1. Log in to the Azure portal, at https://portal.azure.com.
2. Click on + Create a resource and select Text Analytics from the list of all available resources.
3. You can see the overview of this service. Click on Create:
   

   Figure 10.1 – Creating a Text Analytics resource in the Azure portal

4. Fill in the values for Subscription, Resource...