Deep Learning: Practical Neural Networks with Java

Chapter 5. Forecasting Weather

This chapter presents one well-known application in daily life to which neural networks can perfectly be applied: forecasting weather. We are going to walk through the entire process of designing a neural network solution to this problem: how to choose the neural architecture and the number of neurons, as well as selecting and preprocessing data. Then the reader will be presented with techniques to handle time series datasets, from which our neural network is going to make predictions on weather variables using the Java programming language. The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

• Neural networks for regression problems
• Loading/selecting data
• Input/output variables
• Choosing inputs
• Preprocessing
• Normalization ...