Simple Regression in R with TensorFlow
Doing data analysis requires quite a bit of thinking and we believe that when you’ve completed a good data analysis, you’ve spent more time thinking than doing. – Roger Peng I have been wanting to try TensorFlow for some time. Tensorflow is a library, developed by Google, for dataflow programming. I got interested in dataflow long ago in my misspent youth when I was a primary developer of something called KnowledgePro which among other things did a simplified version of dataflow. TensorFlow's killer app is deep learning . However, it has many other possible applications in areas such as machine learning and search. It is built around the notion of stateful data graphs. The idea is that you build a graph of a computation where the nodes are data, constants, or operations. The nodes are stateful in the sense that they maintain their values. The arcs link the nodes into a computational graph. Tensors flow along the arcs. Tensor are multidimensional arrays holding the cons...