Visualizing Neural Networks In Spreadsheets: A Beginner's Guide
Learn neural networks in a spreadsheet! Concepts Illuminated's video series breaks down AND, XOR & half-adder functions for easy visualization & understanding of hidden layers.
For SOME1, the team at Concepts Illuminated made a video series that walks the viewer through making a few different neural networks in a spreadsheet. Why a spreadsheet? I personally find it easier to reason about how all the steps and equations fit together when you can see them all at once and a spreadsheet is a good mechanism for that. The functions learned aren't particularly complex: the series covers the AND function, the XOR function, and then a 1 bit half-adder. However, these functions are easy to visualize in 3D (and Bubble charts) and can help explain why hidden layers are necessar...