In a previous episode we learned how to plot data with gonum and we added a line that approximated those points ... but we totally made that up!

During this episode we'll cover how to evaluate how good a line matches the points and how to find the best line possible by using gradient descent.

• gonum: https://gonum.org
• gonum/plot docs: https://godoc.org/gonum.org/v1/plot
• derivatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative

justforfunc #38: Linear Regression with Gradient Descent (ML4G #2)

References:

• gonum: https://gonum.org
• gonum/plot docs: https://godoc.org/gonum.org/v1/plot