TensorFlow 2.x in the Colaboratory Cloud: An Introduction to Deep Learning on Google’s Cloud Service

© David Paper 2021

D. PaperTensorFlow 2.x in the Colaboratory Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6649-6_4

4. Working with Other Data

David Paper¹  

(1)

Logan, UT, USA

 

In the previous chapter, we showed you how to work with a TFDS. But what if we want to work with another type of dataset? In this chapter, we show you how to work with other types of data with TensorFlow.

Notebooks for chapters are located at the following URL: https://github.com/paperd/tensorflow.

Enable the GPU (if not already enabled):

1. 1.

   Click Runtime in the top-left menu.

    
2. 2.

   Click Change runtime type from the drop-down menu.

    
3. 3.

   Choose GPU from the Hardware accelerator drop-down menu.

    
4. 4.

   Click SAVE.

    

Test if GPU is active:

import tensorflow as tf

# display tf version and test if GPU is ...