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Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

By : Mark Ryan
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Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

By: Mark Ryan

Overview of this book

fastai is an easy-to-use deep learning framework built on top of PyTorch that lets you rapidly create complete deep learning solutions with as few as 10 lines of code. Both predominant low-level deep learning frameworks, TensorFlow and PyTorch, require a lot of code, even for straightforward applications. In contrast, fastai handles the messy details for you and lets you focus on applying deep learning to actually solve problems. The book begins by summarizing the value of fastai and showing you how to create a simple 'hello world' deep learning application with fastai. You'll then learn how to use fastai for all four application areas that the framework explicitly supports: tabular data, text data (NLP), recommender systems, and vision data. As you advance, you'll work through a series of practical examples that illustrate how to create real-world applications of each type. Next, you'll learn how to deploy fastai models, including creating a simple web application that predicts what object is depicted in an image. The book wraps up with an overview of the advanced features of fastai. By the end of this fastai book, you'll be able to create your own deep learning applications using fastai. You'll also have learned how to use fastai to prepare raw datasets, explore datasets, train deep learning models, and deploy trained models.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Assessing whether a tabular dataset is a good candidate for fastai

So far in this chapter, we have created three deep learning models for tabular datasets using fastai. But what if you want to determine whether a new dataset is a good candidate for training a deep learning model with fastai? In this recipe, we'll go through the process of assessing whether a dataset is a good candidate for deep learning with fastai.

Getting ready

Ensure you have followed the steps in Chapter 1, Getting Started with fastai, to get a fastai environment set up.

How to do it…

As you have seen so far in this chapter, you have many choices surrounding datasets that could possibly be applied to deep learning. To assess whether a dataset is a good candidate, we will go through the process of creating a new notebook from scratch and ingesting data from an online API. Follow these steps:

  1. Create a new notebook in Gradient. You can do this in Gradient JupyterLab by following these...