Intro to TensorFlow in R - Edgar's Data Lab

TensorFlow is a very powerful and flexible architecture. It provides the building blocks to create and fit basically any machine learning algorithm. But even a simple linear regression model has to be built "from scratch" using layers and estimators in TensorFlow. TensorFlow has a high-level API that provides "canned models" which, in my opinion, lowers the barrier to entry into experimenting with TensorFlow. And of course, R users are now able to access this API via the tfestimators package.