Blog Post #3: Getting my Boots on the Ground

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog! I am nearly ready to start coding, as I’ve been reading about using Tensorflow and Keras. Contrasting with sk.learn’s SVMs, random trees, and k-means clustering (which are different types of machine learning models), Tensorflow specializes in neural networks, which will be especially useful for analyzing images. I’ll be able to preprocess and augment these images through Tensorflow’s data preprocessing resources, like the tf.data API that helps load data efficiently and the data augmentation features built into certain Keras layers. To top it off, I’ll be using it with React Native, the framework I’ll use to make the app. All of these aspects make Tensorflow a helpful framework to use for my project.

While I have spent quite a long time in the researching phase, I feel like I currently have the base to start coding the machine-learning aspect of my project next week. I’ll provide more updates about my project in my next blog, both with regards to my independent work and to the insights I’ll gain through discussions with my advisors.

Until next week,
Elysse Ahmad Yusri