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Keras 2.x Projects

By : Giuseppe Ciaburro
Book Image

Keras 2.x Projects

By: Giuseppe Ciaburro

Overview of this book

Keras 2.x Projects explains how to leverage the power of Keras to build and train state-of-the-art deep learning models through a series of practical projects that look at a range of real-world application areas. To begin with, you will quickly set up a deep learning environment by installing the Keras library. Through each of the projects, you will explore and learn the advanced concepts of deep learning and will learn how to compute and run your deep learning models using the advanced offerings of Keras. You will train fully-connected multilayer networks, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, autoencoders and generative adversarial networks using real-world training datasets. The projects you will undertake are all based on real-world scenarios of all complexity levels, covering topics such as language recognition, stock volatility, energy consumption prediction, faster object classification for self-driving vehicles, and more. By the end of this book, you will be well versed with deep learning and its implementation with Keras. You will have all the knowledge you need to train your own deep learning models to solve different kinds of problems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

The basics of forecasting

Forecasting the data and information related to the evolution of variables is of crucial importance for the setting of plans for the policies of any activity. For example, to plan the production of a company, it is not enough to know that the demand for products or services is increasing or decreasing, but it is essential to predict the trend of future demand for products, prices, and raw material costs. All of these factors are considered influential in production activity.

Forecasts play a central role that lies at the heart of the entire decision-making process. Inaccurate and inadequate forecasts risk, therefore, invalidating the conclusions reached through the difficult implementation and resolution of a decision model. The term "forecasting process" refers to that of complex activities, which are more or less explicit, that lead to the...