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Machine Learning with Go Quick Start Guide

By : Michael Bironneau, Toby Coleman
Book Image

Machine Learning with Go Quick Start Guide

By: Michael Bironneau, Toby Coleman

Overview of this book

Machine learning is an essential part of today's data-driven world and is extensively used across industries, including financial forecasting, robotics, and web technology. This book will teach you how to efficiently develop machine learning applications in Go. The book starts with an introduction to machine learning and its development process, explaining the types of problems that it aims to solve and the solutions it offers. It then covers setting up a frictionless Go development environment, including running Go interactively with Jupyter notebooks. Finally, common data processing techniques are introduced. The book then teaches the reader about supervised and unsupervised learning techniques through worked examples that include the implementation of evaluation metrics. These worked examples make use of the prominent open-source libraries GoML and Gonum. The book also teaches readers how to load a pre-trained model and use it to make predictions. It then moves on to the operational side of running machine learning applications: deployment, Continuous Integration, and helpful advice for effective logging and monitoring. At the end of the book, readers will learn how to set up a machine learning project for success, formulating realistic success criteria and accurately translating business requirements into technical ones.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Example – deep learning using the TensorFlow API for Go

Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning that employs neural networks, usually with many layers, to solve complex problems such image or speech recognition. In this example, we will look at how to leverage TensorFlow, a popular deep learning framework, using its Go bindings.

TensorFlow is a highly optimized library that was created by Google to perform calculations on objects called tensors[8]. If a vector is a collection of scalar entries (numbers) and a matrix a collection of vectors, then a tensor can be thought of as a higher-dimensional matrix, of which scalars, vectors, and matrices are special cases. While this may seem a bit abstract, tensors are natural objects to use when describing neural networks, and this is why TensorFlow has become one of the most popular libraries—even the most popular...