Machine Learning Meets Fashion – Towards Data Science – Medium

Training a model with the MNIST dataset is often considered the "Hello world" of machine learning. That's been done many times over, but unfortunately, just because a model does well on MNIST, doesn't necessarily mean it is predictive of high performance on other datasets, especially since most image data we have today are considerable more complex than handwritten digits. Zalando decided it was time to make MNIST fashionable again, and recently released a dataset called fashion-mnist. It's the exact same format as'regular' MNIST except the data is in the form of pictures of various clothing types, shoes, and bags. It is still across 10 categories and the images are still 28 by 28 pixels.