Data can come from many sources and in many types, for example:
- Log files
- Text documents
- Tabular data
- Images
- Videos
When working with neural nets, the end goal is to convert each data type into a collection of numerical values in a multidimensional array. Data could also need to be pre-processed before it can be used to train or test a net. Therefore, an ETL process is needed in most cases, which is a sometimes underestimated challenge that data scientists have to face when doing ML or DL. That's when the DL4J DataVec library comes to the rescue. After data is transformed through this library API, it comes into a format (vectors) understandable by neural networks, so DataVec ...
