{"id":2002,"date":"2021-05-02T20:28:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2021-05-03T12:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T12:53:58","slug":"tidyx-58-tensorflow-neural-network-for-pitchf-x-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/tidyx-58-tensorflow-neural-network-for-pitchf-x-classification\/","title":{"rendered":"TidyX 58: Tensorflow Neural Network for pitchf\/x classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our sixth model of the pitchf\/x classification series, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ellis_hughes\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ellis Hughes<\/span><\/a><\/strong> and I build a neural network using {tensorflow}. We then go on and discuss whether the <em>steak is worth the sizzle<\/em> as far as using a model as complex as a neural network versus one of the more simpler models that we covered in prior episodes in this series.<\/p>\n<p>To watch our screen cast, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JC3Uik8eGoQ\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To access our code, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/thebioengineer\/TidyX\/tree\/master\/TidyTuesday_Explained\/058-MLB_pitch_classification_6\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For previous episodes in this series:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/tidyx-53-mlb-pitch-classification-series-eda-hierarchical-clustering\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Episode 53: Pitch Classification &amp; EDA<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/tidyx-54-mlb-pitch-classification-series-knn-umap\/\">Episode 54: KNN &amp; UMAP<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/tidyx-55-decision-trees-random-forest-optimization\/\">Episode 55: Decision Trees, Random Forest, &amp; Optimization<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/tidyx-56-xgboost-for-pitchf-x-classification\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Episode 56: XGBoost<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/tidyx-57-naive-bayes-classifier-for-pitchf-x-classification\/\">Episode 57: Naive Bayes Classifier<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our sixth model of the pitchf\/x classification series, Ellis Hughes and I build a neural network using {tensorflow}. We then go on and discuss whether the steak is worth the sizzle as far as using a model as complex as a neural network versus one of the more simpler models that we covered in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidyx-screen-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}