Preparing data for neural network processing is typically the most difficult and time-consuming task you’ll encounter when working with neural networks. In addition to the enormous volume of data that could easily reach millions and even billions of records, the main difficulty is in preparing the data in the correct format for the task in question. In this and the following chapters, I will demonstrate several techniques of data preparations/transformation.
The goal of this chapter’s example is to show how to bypass the major restriction for the neural ...