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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)

Titanic survival predictor

In this tutorial, we will learn to use TFLearn and TensorFlow to model the survival chance of titanic passengers using their personal information (such as gender, age, and so on). To tackle this classic machine learning task, we are going to build a DNN classifier.

Let's take a look at the dataset (TFLearn will automatically download it for you).

For each passenger, the following information is provided:

survivedSurvived (0 = No; 1 = Yes) 
pclass Passenger Class (1 = st; 2 = nd; 3 = rd)
name Name
sex Sex
age Age
sibsp Number of Siblings/Spouses Aboard
parch Number of Parents/Children Aboard
ticket Ticket Number
fare Passenger Fare

Here are some samples extracted from the dataset:

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survived pclass name sex age sibsp parch ticket fare
1 1 Aubart, Mme. Leontine Pauline Female 24 0 0 PC 17477 69.3000
0 2 Bowenur, Mr. Solomon Male 42 0 0 211535 13.0000
1 3