April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 46m
English
Let's show a short example of how to access the MNIST data and how to display a selected image.
We import the following libraries:
The numpy library because we have to do some image manipulation:
>>import numpy as np
The pyplot function in matplotlib for drawing the images:
>>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Finally, the mnist_data library, which you can download from the code repository of this book. It is a Google script that allows us to download the MNIST database and to build the dataset:
>>import mnist_data
Then we load the dataset using the read_data_sets method:
>>__input = mnist_data.read_data_sets("data")
The data is the name of the directory where the images will be uploaded.
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