SharpLearning

Let’s now turn our attention to an incredible open source package, SharpLearning. SharpLearning is an excellent machine learning framework for individuals to learn about many aspects of machine learning, including decision trees and random forests as we described in the preceding sections. Let’s spend a few minutes getting familiar with a few things before we dive into some code samples and example applications.

Terminology

Throughout this chapter you are going to see the following terms used. Here is the context for what each of them means:

• Learner: This refers to a machine learning algorithm.
• Model: This refers to a machine learning model.
• Hyper-parameters: These are the parameters used to adjust...