Deep Learning By Example

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Data science - Bird's-eye view, explains that data science or machine learning is the process of giving the machines the ability to learn from a dataset without being told or programmed. For instance, it will be extremely hard to write a program that takes a hand-written digit as an input image and outputs a value from 0-9 according to the number that's written in this image. The same applies to the task of classifying incoming emails as spam or non-spam. To solve such tasks, data scientists uses learning methods and tools from the field of data science or machine learning to teach the computer how to automatically recognize digits by giving it some explanatory features that can distinguish each digit from ...