The TensorFlow Workshop: A hands-on guide to building deep learning models from scratch using real-world datasets

Get started with TensorFlow fundamentals to build and train deep learning models with real-world data, practical exercises, and challenging activities

Key Features

• Understand the fundamentals of tensors, neural networks, and deep learning
• Discover how to implement and fine-tune deep learning models for real-world datasets
• Build your experience and confidence with hands-on exercises and activities

Book Description

Getting to grips with tensors, deep learning, and neural networks can be intimidating and confusing for anyone, no matter their experience level. The breadth of information out there, often written at a very high level and aimed at advanced practitioners, can make getting started even more challenging.

If this sounds familiar to you, The TensorFlow Workshop is here to help. Combining clear explanations, realistic examples, and plenty of hands-on practice, it’ll quickly get you up and running.

You’ll start off with the basics – learning how to load data into TensorFlow, perform tensor operations, and utilize common optimizers and activation functions. As you progress, you’ll experiment with different TensorFlow development tools, including TensorBoard, TensorFlow Hub, and Google Colab, before moving on to solve regression and classification problems with sequential models.

Building on this solid foundation, you’ll learn how to tune models and work with different types of neural network, getting hands-on with real-world deep learning applications such as text encoding, temperature forecasting, image augmentation, and audio processing.

By the end of this deep learning book, you’ll have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to tackle your own ambitious deep learning projects with TensorFlow.

What you will learn

• Get to grips with TensorFlow’s mathematical operations
• Pre-process a wide variety of tabular, sequential, and image data
• Understand the purpose and usage of different deep learning layers
• Perform hyperparameter-tuning to prevent overfitting of training data
• Use pre-trained models to speed up the development of learning models
• Generate new data based on existing patterns using generative models

Who this book is for

This TensorFlow book is for anyone who wants to develop their understanding of deep learning and get started building neural networks with TensorFlow. Basic knowledge of Python programming and its libraries, as well as a general understanding of the fundamentals of data science and machine learning, will help you grasp the topics covered in this book more easily.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Machine Learning with TensorFlow
2. Loading and Processing Data
3. TensorFlow Development
4. Regression and Classification Models
5. Classification Models
6. Regularization and Hyperparameter Tuning
7. Convolutional Neural Networks
8. Pre-Trained Networks
9. Recurrent Neural Networks
10. Custom TensorFlow Components
11. Generative Models

Matthew Moocarme is an accomplished data scientist with more than eight years of experience in creating and utilizing machine learning models. He comes from a background in the physical sciences, in which he holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Graduate Center of CUNY. Currently, he leads a team of data scientists and engineers in the media and advertising space to build and integrate machine learning models for a variety of applications. In his spare time, Matthew enjoys sharing his knowledge with the data science community through published works, conference presentations, and workshops. Anthony So is a renowned leader in data science. He has extensive experience in solving complex business problems using advanced analytics and AI in different industries including financial services, media, and telecommunications. He is currently the chief data officer of one of the most innovative fintech start-ups. He is also the author of several best-selling books on data science, machine learning, and deep learning. He has won multiple prizes at several hackathon competitions, such as Unearthed, GovHack, and Pepper Money. Anthony holds two master's degrees, one in computer science and the other in data science and innovation. Anthony Maddalone is a research engineer at TieSet, a Silicon Valley-based leader in distributed artificial intelligence and federated learning. He is a former founder and CEO of a successful start-up. Anthony lives with his wife and two children in Colorado, where they enjoy spending time outdoors. He is also a master's candidate in analytics with a focus on industrial engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.