Hands-On Python Deep Learning for the Web

A note on the input and output layers of a neural network

It is important to understand what can be given as inputs to a neural network. Do we feed raw images or raw text data to a neural network? Or are there other ways to provide input to a neural network? In this section, we will learn how a computer really interprets an image to show what exactly can be given as input to a neural network when it is dealing with images (yes, neural networks are pretty great at image processing). We will also learn the ways to show what it takes to feed a neural network with raw text data. But before that, we need to have a clear understanding of how a regular tabular dataset is given as an input to a neural network. Because tabular datasets are everywhere, ...