MNIST is the dataset that is always discussed first when making first steps in the world of neural networks and image classification. MNIST is a database of grayscale images of handwritten digits. It has a training set of 60,000 examples, and a test set of 10,000 examples.
In the following activities, we will be predicting the value written on an image by building our first neural network.
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