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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 Apache Spark


If you have worked in big data, there is a high probability that you already know what Apache Spark is, and you can skip this section. But if you don't, don't worry—we'll go through the basics.

Spark is a powerful, fast, and scalable real-time data analytics engine for large scale data processing. It's an open source framework that was developed initially by the UC Berkeley AMPLab around the year 2009. Around 2013, AMPLab contributed Spark to the Apache Software Foundation, with Apache Spark Community releasing Spark 1.0 in 2014.

The community continues to make regular releases and brings new features into the project. At the time of writing this book, we have the Apache Spark 2.4.0 release and active community on GitHub. It's a real-time data analytics engine that allows you to distribute programs across a cluster of machines.

The beauty of Spark lays in the fact that it's scalable: it runs on top of a cluster manager, allowing you to use the scripts written in Python...