Lessons Learned: Installing SkFlow

SkFlow is the scikit-learn interface to Google's opensource AI library TensorFlow. Installation started off straightforward enough and simply installing numpy and sklearn satisfied pre-requisites. Next we install TensorFlow with a simple: sudo pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.7.1-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl And last we install SkFlow itself with: pip install skflow Two stumbling blocks came up in by installation. When installing … Continue reading Lessons Learned: Installing SkFlow

Verify if a point is Land or Water in Google Maps

Inspired by this question on StackOverflow "Verify if a point is Land or Water in Google Maps" I decided to see if the question was solvable quickly and easily. This being the API economy.. surely Google has an API to solve this question? It does... in the form of Google Elevation API. Here are the end … Continue reading Verify if a point is Land or Water in Google Maps