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Machine Learning: Predict Numbers from Handwritten Digits using a Neural Network, Keras, and R
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Machine Learning: Predict Numbers from Handwritten Digits using a Neural Network, Keras, and R

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Chris Shockley

Instructor: Chris Shockley

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4.4

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What you'll learn

  • Train and Test a Neural Network Model to read hand written numbers and return the digit.

  • Practice using One Hot Encoding to build a classifier.

  • Practice evaluating model performance.

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2 Hours
Learn at your own pace
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Only available on desktop
Hands-on learning
4.4

(71 reviews)

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In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:

  1. Task 1: In this task the Learner will be introduced to the Course Objectives, which is to how to execute a Neural Network on the MNIST Data Set. There will also be a short discussion about the Interface, loading packages, and an Instructor Bio.

  2. Task 2: The Learners will see what a Tensor looks like and then apply that knowledge to 60,000 hand written digits using Keras array_reshape() function.

  3. Task 3: The Learner will then create a classifier using one hot encoding.

  4. Task 4: The Learner will then build out the architecture for the Neural Network. Rectified Linear Unit ("RELU") and SoftMax will be used.

  5. Task 5: The Learner will then build out a loss optimizer function using cross_entropy.

  6. Task 6: The Learner will test to see how the model performed using a Confusion Matrix.Task 3: The Learner will get experience creating Testing and Training Data Sets. There are multiple ways to do this and the Instructor will go over two of them in this Task.

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Basic knowledge of Machine Learning

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  • Available only on desktop

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