Deep Learning with Structured Data

1 Why deep learning with structured data?

This chapter covers

• A high-level overview of deep learning
• Benefits and drawbacks of deep learning
• Introduction to the deep learning software stack
• Structured versus unstructured data
• Objections to deep learning with structured data
• Advantages of deep learning with structured data
• Introduction to the code accompanying this book

Since 2012, we have witnessed what can only be called a renaissance of artificial intelligence. A discipline that had lost its way in the late 1980s is important again. What happened?

In October 2012, a team of students working with Geoffrey Hinton (a leading academic proponent of deep learning based at the University of Toronto) announced a result in the ImageNet computer ...