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TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects

By : Ankit Jain, Amita Kapoor
Book Image

TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects

By: Ankit Jain, Amita Kapoor

Overview of this book

TensorFlow has transformed the way machine learning is perceived. TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects teaches you how to exploit the benefits—simplicity, efficiency, and flexibility—of using TensorFlow in various real-world projects. With the help of this book, you’ll not only learn how to build advanced projects using different datasets but also be able to tackle common challenges using a range of libraries from the TensorFlow ecosystem. To start with, you’ll get to grips with using TensorFlow for machine learning projects; you’ll explore a wide range of projects using TensorForest and TensorBoard for detecting exoplanets, TensorFlow.js for sentiment analysis, and TensorFlow Lite for digit classification. As you make your way through the book, you’ll build projects in various real-world domains, incorporating natural language processing (NLP), the Gaussian process, autoencoders, recommender systems, and Bayesian neural networks, along with trending areas such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), capsule networks, and reinforcement learning. You’ll learn how to use the TensorFlow on Spark API and GPU-accelerated computing with TensorFlow to detect objects, followed by how to train and develop a recurrent neural network (RNN) model to generate book scripts. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the required expertise to build full-fledged machine learning projects at work.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introducing the Retailrocket dataset


In this chapter, we shall showcase a recommendation system algorithm using the Retailrocket dataset. 

Note

The Retailrocket dataset is available from the Kaggle website, at https://www.kaggle.com/retailrocket/ecommerce-dataset.

We download the dataset using the following command:

kaggle datasets download -d retailrocket/ecommerce-dataset

The downloaded files are moved into the ~/datasets/kaggle-retailrocket folder. You can keep it in whichever folder you feel comfortable with.

The Retailrocket dataset comes in three files:

  • events.csv: This file contains the visitor-item interaction data
  • item_properties.сsv: This file contains item properties
  • category_tree.csv: This file contains the category tree

The data contains the values collected from an e-commerce website but has been anonymized to ensure the privacy of the users. The interaction data represents interactions over a period of 4.5 months.

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