Get the Dataset Ready
Explore how to properly open and read the MNIST dataset file in Python, handling it efficiently by reading all lines into a list. Understand the importance of closing files to manage resources and avoid conflicts. This lesson helps you prepare your dataset, gain access to image pixel values, and label data essential for training a neural network effectively.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Open the dataset
Before we can do anything with the data, like plotting it or training a neural network with it, we need to find a way to get at it from our Python code.
Opening a file and getting its ...