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Deep Learning with TensorFlow

By : Giancarlo Zaccone, Md. Rezaul Karim, Ahmed Menshawy
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Deep Learning with TensorFlow

By: Giancarlo Zaccone, Md. Rezaul Karim, Ahmed Menshawy

Overview of this book

Deep learning is the step that comes after machine learning, and has more advanced implementations. Machine learning is not just for academics anymore, but is becoming a mainstream practice through wide adoption, and deep learning has taken the front seat. As a data scientist, if you want to explore data abstraction layers, this book will be your guide. This book shows how this can be exploited in the real world with complex raw data using TensorFlow 1.x. Throughout the book, you’ll learn how to implement deep learning algorithms for machine learning systems and integrate them into your product offerings, including search, image recognition, and language processing. Additionally, you’ll learn how to analyze and improve the performance of deep learning models. This can be done by comparing algorithms against benchmarks, along with machine intelligence, to learn from the information and determine ideal behaviors within a specific context. After finishing the book, you will be familiar with machine learning techniques, in particular the use of TensorFlow for deep learning, and will be ready to apply your knowledge to research or commercial projects.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Exploring the MNIST dataset

Let's show a short example of how to access the MNIST data and how to display a selected image.

We import the following libraries:

The numpy library because we have to do some image manipulation:

 >>import numpy as np  

The pyplot function in matplotlib for drawing the images:

 
>>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Finally, the mnist_data library, which you can download from the code repository of this book. It is a Google script that allows us to download the MNIST database and to build the dataset:

 >>import mnist_data  

Then we load the dataset using the read_data_sets method:

 >>__input = mnist_data.read_data_sets("data")

The data is the name of the directory where the images will be uploaded.

The shape of the images and labels:

>>__input.train.images.shape 
(60000, 28, 28, 1)

>>__input.train.labels.shape
(60000, 10)

>>__input...