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Principles of Data Science
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Principles of Data Science

by Sinan Ozdemir
December 2016
Beginner
388 pages
8h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Case study 3 – using tensorflow

I would like to finish off our time together by looking at a somewhat more modern module that was only recently introduced by Google's machine learning division called tensorflow.

Tensorflow is an open-source machine learning module that is used primarily for its simplified deep learning and neural network abilities. I would like to take some time to introduce the module and solve a few quick problems using tensorflow. The syntax for tensorflow (like PyBrain in Chapter 12, Beyond the Essentials) is a bit different than our normal scikit-learn syntax so I will be going over it step by step. Let's start with some imports:

from sklearn import datasets, metrics import tensorflow as tf import numpy as np from sklearn.cross_validation ...
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