Machine Learning and the MNIST Digit DataSet

Machine Learning and the MNIST Digit DataSet

In this project, we’ll see how a simple algorithm such as KNN can produce great results by creating a classifier for the MNIST digits dataset.

Image courtesy of Josef Steppan, CC BY 4.0, on Wikipedia: MNIST_database

This dataset contains handwritten digits with labels. It is useful to train a machine learning algorithm to recognize handwriting.