Deep learning has emerged in the last few years as a premier technology for building intelligent
systems that learn from data. Deep neural networks, originally roughly inspired by how the human
brain learns, are trained with large amounts of data to solve complex tasks with unprecedented
accuracy. With open source frameworks making this technology widely available, it is becoming a
must-know for anybody involved with big data and machine learning.
TensorFlow is currently the leading open source software for deep learning, used by a rapidly
growing number of practitioners working on computer vision, natural language processing (NLP),
speech recognition, and general predictive analytics.
This book is an end-to-end guide to TensorFlow designed for data scientists, engineers, students, and
researchers. The book adopts a hands-on approach suitable for a broad technical audience, allowing
beginners a gentle start while diving deep into advanced topics and showing how to build production-
ready systems.
In this book you will learn how to:
1. Get up and running with TensorFlow, rapidly and painlessly.
2. Use TensorFlow to build models from the ground up.
3. Train and understand popular deep learning models for computer vision and NLP.
4. Use extensive abstraction libraries to make development easier and faster.
5. Scale up TensorFlow with queuing and multithreading, training on clusters, and serving
output in production.
6. And much more!
This book is written by data scientists with extensive R&D experience in both industry and academic
research. The authors take a hands-on approach, combining practical and intuitive examples,
illustrations, and insights suitable for practitioners seeking to build production-ready systems, as well
as readers looking to learn to understand and build flexible and powerful models.
