These are examples of item-level descriptions, illustrating how encoding works with and without the use of CDATA (a feature of XML 1.0). Each example consists of two lines, the first is an example ...

A topic that's often very confusing for beginners when using neural networks is data normalization and encoding. Because neural networks work internally with numeric data, binary data (such as sex, ...

For example, it's better to normalize data before encoding because encoding generates many additional numeric columns which makes it a bit more complicated to normalize the original numeric data.