Prepare your dataset

In the console you can check that your labels, darts.competitor are not yet in a format to be understood by your network. They contain the names of the competitors as strings. You will first turn these competitors into unique numbers,then use the to_categorical() function from keras.utils to turn these numbers into their one-hot encoded representation.

This is useful for multi-class classification problems, since there are as many output neurons as classes and for every observation in our dataset we just want one of the neurons to be activated.

The dart's dataset is loaded as darts. Pandas is imported as pd. Let's prepare this dataset!

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Introduction to Deep Learning with Keras

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# Transform into a categorical variable
darts.competitor = pd.____(darts.competitor)

# Assign a number to each category (label encoding)
darts.competitor = darts.competitor.____.____ 

# Print the label encoded competitors
print('Label encoded competitors: \n',darts.competitor.head())

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Introduction to Deep Learning with Keras

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In this first chapter, you will get introduced to neural networks, understand what kind of problems they can solve, and when to use them. You will also build several networks and save the earth by training a regression model that approximates the orbit of a meteor that is approaching us!

Exercise 1: What is Keras?Exercise 2: Describing Keras Exercise 3: Would you use deep learning?Exercise 4: Your first neural network Exercise 5: Hello nets!Exercise 6: Counting parameters Exercise 7: Build as shown!Exercise 8: Surviving a meteor strike Exercise 9: Specifying a model Exercise 10: Training Exercise 11: Predicting the orbit!

By the end of this chapter, you will know how to solve binary, multi-class, and multi-label problems with neural networks. All of this by solving problems like detecting fake dollar bills, deciding who threw which dart at a board, and building an intelligent system to water your farm. You will also be able to plot model training metrics and to stop training and save your models when they no longer improve.

Exercise 1: Binary classification Exercise 2: Exploring dollar bills Exercise 3: A binary classification model Exercise 4: Is this dollar bill fake ?Exercise 5: Multi-class classification Exercise 6: A multi-class model Exercise 7: Prepare your dataset

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In the previous chapters, you've trained a lot of models! You will now learn how to interpret learning curves to understand your models as they train. You will also visualize the effects of activation functions, batch-sizes, and batch-normalization. Finally, you will learn how to perform automatic hyperparameter optimization to your Keras models using sklearn.

Exercise 1: Learning curves Exercise 2: Learning the digits Exercise 3: Is the model overfitting?Exercise 4: Do we need more data?Exercise 5: Activation functions Exercise 6: Different activation functions Exercise 7: Comparing activation functions Exercise 8: Comparing activation functions II Exercise 9: Batch size and batch normalization Exercise 10: Changing batch sizes Exercise 11: Batch normalizing a familiar model Exercise 12: Batch normalization effects Exercise 13: Hyperparameter tuning Exercise 14: Preparing a model for tuning Exercise 15: Tuning the model parameters Exercise 16: Training with cross-validation

It's time to get introduced to more advanced architectures! You will create an autoencoder to reconstruct noisy images, visualize convolutional neural network activations, use deep pre-trained models to classify images and learn more about recurrent neural networks and working with text as you build a network that predicts the next word in a sentence.

Exercise 1: Tensors, layers, and autoencoders Exercise 2: It's a flow of tensors Exercise 3: Neural separation Exercise 4: Building an autoencoder Exercise 5: De-noising like an autoencoder Exercise 6: Intro to CNNs Exercise 7: Building a CNN model Exercise 8: Looking at convolutions Exercise 9: Preparing your input image Exercise 10: Using a real world model Exercise 11: Intro to LSTMs Exercise 12: Text prediction with LSTMs Exercise 13: Build your LSTM model Exercise 14: Decode your predictions Exercise 15: Test your model!Exercise 16: You're done!