Using TensorFlow for Predictive Analytics with Linear Regression

Since its release in 2015 by the Google Brain team, TensorFlow has been a driving force in conversations centered on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics. With its flexible architecture, TensorFlow provides numerical computation capacity with incredible parallelism that is appealing to both small and large businesses. TensorFlow, being built on stateful dataflow graphs across multiple systems, allows for parallel processing--data to be leveraged in a meaningful way without requiring petabytes of data. To demonstrate how you can take advantage of TensorFlow without having huge silos of data on hand, I'll explain how to use TensorFlow to build a linear regression model in this post. Linear modeling is a relatively simplistic type of mathematical method that, when used properly, can help predict modeled behavior.