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TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Nick McClure
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TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook

By: Nick McClure

Overview of this book

TensorFlow is an open source software library for Machine Intelligence. The independent recipes in this book will teach you how to use TensorFlow for complex data computations and will let you dig deeper and gain more insights into your data than ever before. You’ll work through recipes on training models, model evaluation, sentiment analysis, regression analysis, clustering analysis, artificial neural networks, and deep learning – each using Google’s machine learning library TensorFlow. This guide starts with the fundamentals of the TensorFlow library which includes variables, matrices, and various data sources. Moving ahead, you will get hands-on experience with Linear Regression techniques with TensorFlow. The next chapters cover important high-level concepts such as neural networks, CNN, RNN, and NLP. Once you are familiar and comfortable with the TensorFlow ecosystem, the last chapter will show you how to take it to production.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Implementing Logistic Regression


For this recipe, we will implement logistic regression to predict the probability of low birthweight.

Getting ready

Logistic regression is a way to turn linear regression into a binary classification. This is accomplished by transforming the linear output in a sigmoid function that scales the output between zero and 1. The target is a zero or 1, which indicates whether or not a data point is in one class or another. Since we are predicting a number between zero or 1, the prediction is classified into class value 1''' if the prediction is above a specified cut off value and class 0 otherwise. For the purpose of this example, we will specify that cut off to be 0.5, which will make the classification as simple as rounding the output.

The data we will use for this example will be the low birthweight data that is obtained through the University of Massachusetts Amherst statistical dataset repository (https://www.umass.edu/statdata/statdata/). We will be predicting...