title: TensorFlow For Dummies
author: Matthew Scarpino
description: <ul><li>Explore the underlying machine learning concepts</li><li>Deploy TensorFlow applications to the Google Cloud Platform</li><li>Learn TensorFlow modules and create a neural network</li></ul>
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  **Building Machine Learning**
  
   **Projects with TensorFlow**
  
  Engaging projects that wil teach you how
  
  complex data can be exploited to gain the most insight
  
   **Rodolfo Bonnin**
  
   **Building Machine Learning**
  
   **Projects with TensorFlow**
  
  Copyright © 2016 Packt Publishing
  
    
  
  First published: November 2016
  
    
  
  Production reference: 2220317
  
    
  
  Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.
  
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  B3 2PB, UK.
  
  ISBN 978-1-78646-658-7
  
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  Contents
  
   **Preface**
  
  1
  
   **Chapter 1: Exploring and Transforming Data**
  
  7
  
   **TensorFlow's main data structure - tensors**
  
  8
  
  Tensor properties - ranks, shapes, and types
  
  8
  
  Tensor rank
  
  8
  
  Tensor shape
  
  9
  
  Tensor data types
  
  10
  
  Creating new tensors
  
  10
  
  From numpy to tensors and vice versa
  
  11
  
  Getting things done - interacting with TensorFlow
  
  11
  
   **Handling the computing workflow - TensorFlow's data flow graph**
  
  12
  
  Computation graph building
  
  13
  
  Useful operation o