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thomelane commented on a change in pull request #15114: Added transform tutorial
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15114#discussion_r292078950
 
 

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+# Data Transforms
+
+Creating a [`Dataset`](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/api/python/gluon/data.html?highlight=dataset#mxnet.gluon.data.Dataset) is the starting point of the data pipeline, but we usually need to change samples before passing them to the network. Gluon `transforms` provide us with a simple way to apply these changes. We can use out-of-the-box transforms or create our own.
+
+We'll demonstrate this by adjusting samples returned by the [`CIFAR10`](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/api/python/gluon/data.html?highlight=cifar#mxnet.gluon.data.vision.datasets.CIFAR10) dataset and start by importing the relevant modules.
+
+
+```python
+import mxnet as mx
+from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
+from mxnet import image
+from mxnet.gluon import data as gdata, utils
+import numpy as np
+```
+
+After creating our [CIFAR-10 `Dataset`]([`CIFAR10`](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/api/python/gluon/data.html?highlight=cifar#mxnet.gluon.data.vision.datasets.CIFAR10)), we can inspect a random sample.
+
+
+```python
+dataset = mx.gluon.data.vision.CIFAR10()
+```
+
+
+```python
+sample_idx = 42
+sample_data, sample_label = dataset[sample_idx]
+print("data shape: {}".format(sample_data.shape))
+print("data type: {}".format(sample_data.dtype))
+print("data range: {} to {}".format(sample_data.min().asscalar(),
+                                    sample_data.max().asscalar()))
+print("label: {}".format(sample_label))
+plt.imshow(sample_data.asnumpy())
+```
+
+Our sample looks fine, but we need to need to make a few changes before using this as an input to a neural network.
+
+### Using `ToTensor` and `.transform_first`
+
+Ordering of dimensions (sometimes called the data layout) is important for correct usage of a neural network. Currently our samples are ordered (height, width, channel) but we need to change this to (channel, height, width) before passing to our network. We also need to change our data type. Currently it's `uint8`, but we need to change this to `float32`.
+
+MXNet Gluon provides a number of useful `transform`s for common computer vision cases like this. We will use [`ToTensor`](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/api/python/gluon/data.html?highlight=totens#mxnet.gluon.data.vision.transforms.ToTensor to change the data layout and convert integers (between 0 and 255) to floats (between 0 and 1). We apply the transform to our `dataset` using the [`transform_first`](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/api/python/gluon/data.html?highlight=transform_first#mxnet.gluon.data.Dataset.transform_first) method. We have 2 elements per sample here (i.e. data and label), so the transform is only applied to the first element (i.e. data).
 
 Review comment:
   thanks

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