Intro to Python for Computer Science and Data Science: Learning to Program with AI, Big Data and The Cloud

16.2 Keras Built-In Datasets

Here are some of Keras’s datasets (from the module tensorflow.keras.datasets¹³) for practicing deep learning. We’ll use these in the chapter’s examples, exercises and projects:

13. In the standalone Keras library, the module names begin with keras rather than tensorflow.keras.

• MNIST¹⁴database of handwritten digits—Used for classifying handwritten digit images, this dataset contains 28-by-28 grayscale digit images labeled as 0 through 9 with 60,000 images for training and 10,000 for testing. We use this dataset in Section 16.6, where we study convolutional neural networks.

  14. “The MNIST Database.” MNIST Handwritten Digit Database, Yann LeCun, Corinna Cortes and Chris Burges. http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/.

• Fashion-MNIST ...