{"id":1345,"date":"2021-07-20T15:29:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:24:19","slug":"best-machine-learning-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/best-machine-learning-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Best Open-source Machine Learning Libraries [2022]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/what-is-machine-learning-fundamentals\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Machine learning<\/a>&nbsp;libraries and frameworks make it easier to write code for&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/what-is-machine-learning-fundamentals\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">machine learning<\/a>&nbsp;without knowing the underlying mathematics behind the algorithms or building from scratch. With libraries, we can write code faster to train models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In picking a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/what-is-machine-learning-fundamentals\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">machine learning<\/a>&nbsp;framework to use, carefully consider these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Learning curve of a machine learning library<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some machine learning libraries are easy to learn and implement, while others require more technical expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. User and organization&#8217;s adoption<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is essential to know what tool organizations use in production if you intend to apply for machine learning jobs or build your product.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Project scope<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Machine learning libraries focus on different goals. Find a library that is useful to your project scope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your project scope focuses on image data, you should choose better-optimized frameworks for images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"10-best-machine-learning-libraries-and-frameworks\">10 best machine learning libraries and frameworks.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"1-pytorch\">1. PyTorch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_pytorch-logo-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"machine_learning_libraries_pytorch-logo\" class=\"wp-image-1462\" width=\"159\" height=\"156\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pytorch\/pytorch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PyTorch<\/a> is an open-source machine learning framework developed by Facebook&#8217;s AI Research lab (FAIR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written in: Python, CUDA, C++.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PyTorch is used both for research and production in building state-of-the-art products. It broadly supports the development of projects in computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>learning and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has a robust ecosystem and is supported on major cloud platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-curve-medium\">Learning curve:&nbsp;<strong>Medium<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>PyTorch is easier to learn than other deep learning frameworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adoption-level-high\">Adoption level: <strong>High<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1900+ contributors on Github. Used by over 83,000 repositories on Github.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"who-is-using-pytorch\">Who is using PyTorch?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>salesforce, Stanford university, Udacity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"where-to-learn-pytorch\">Where to learn PyTorch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn the basics of PyTorch following&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pytorch.org\/tutorials\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">these tutorials.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"2-tensorflow-tf\">2. TensorFlow (TF)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_tensorflow-1024x576.png\" alt=\"machine_learning_libraries_tensorflow\" class=\"wp-image-1463\" width=\"227\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_tensorflow-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_tensorflow-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_tensorflow-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_tensorflow-696x385.png 696w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_tensorflow-1068x601.png 1068w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_tensorflow-747x420.png 747w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_tensorflow.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tensorflow\/tensorflow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TensorFlow<\/a> is an open-source platform for machine learning developed by Google. TensorFlow was released to the public in November 2015. The core of TensorFlow is written in Python, C++, and CUDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TF is used both in research and production environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Python is widely used for TensorFlow, TensorFlow is available in R, JavaScript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TF is popularly used for numerical computations. It has inbuilt machine learning and statistical tools. It is used to build projects on regression, classification, neural networks, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In production, TensorFlow Extended (TFX) is used to build a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/introduction-to-mlops-machine-learning\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">production pipeline<\/a>. It is optimized for large scaling and other deployment features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/introduction-to-mlops-machine-learning\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more on MLOps.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TensorFlow has a visualization toolkit called&nbsp;<strong>TensorBoard<\/strong>. TensorBoard provides an interactive web-based dashboard for visualization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TensorFlow can run computations on CPU, GPU, and TPU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-curve-medium\">Learning curve: Medium<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adoption-level-high\">Adoption level: <strong>High<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>TensorFlow is widely used in production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3,036+ Contributors; used by over 146,000 repositories on Github.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"examples\">Examples<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>TensorFlow has a step-by-step example on its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Build your first neural network with TensorFlow,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tensorflow.org\/tutorials\/keras\/classification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">classify images of clothing<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tensorflow.org\/recommenders\/examples\/basic_retrieval\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Build a movie recommender engine.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tensorflow.org\/tutorials\/generative\/dcgan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Train a Generative Adversarial Network<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"who-is-using-tensorflow\">Who is using TensorFlow?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the companies using TensorFlow include;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airbnb, Google, Coca-Cola, DeepMind, GE Healthcare, intel. Twitter, Dropbox, eBay, Lenovo, Linkedin, Nvidia, PayPal, Snapchat, Bloomberg, musical.ly, Kakao, AMD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"where-to-learn\">Where to learn?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I recommend you start with&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tensorflow.org\/learn\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TensorFlow tutorials here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"3-scikit-learn\">3. Scikit-learn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_scikit_learn-1024x551.png\" alt=\"machine_learning_libraries_scikit_learn\" class=\"wp-image-1464\" width=\"212\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_scikit_learn-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_scikit_learn-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_scikit_learn-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_scikit_learn-696x375.png 696w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_scikit_learn-1068x580.png 1068w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_scikit_learn-780x420.png 780w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_scikit_learn.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/scikit-learn\/scikit-learn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scikit-learn<\/a> is a popular open-source&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/what-is-machine-learning-fundamentals\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">machine learning<\/a>&nbsp;library developed by David Cournapeau and initially released in June 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written in Python, C, C++, Cython.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scikit-learn is not built to run across clusters. It is mainly used in experimentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-curve-easy\">learning curve: Easy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adoption-level-high\">Adoption level: <strong>High<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>2000+ contributors on Github. Used by over 238,000 repositories on Github. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"4-spark-mllib\">4. Spark MLlib<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_apache_spark_mllib-1024x532.png\" alt=\"machine_learning_libraries_apache_spark_mllib\" class=\"wp-image-1465\" width=\"198\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_apache_spark_mllib-1024x532.png 1024w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_apache_spark_mllib-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_apache_spark_mllib-768x399.png 768w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_apache_spark_mllib-696x361.png 696w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_apache_spark_mllib-1068x554.png 1068w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_apache_spark_mllib-809x420.png 809w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_apache_spark_mllib.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Apache Spark<\/strong> itself is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. It is used for many things, including;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>creating and managing data pipelines, data ingestion, data streams, machine learning modeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/apache\/spark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spark MLlib<\/a><\/strong> is built on top of Spark. It is widely used in production because it integrates easily with other Spark components like Spark SQL, Spark Streaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-curve-medium\">learning curve: Medium<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adoption-level-high\">Adoption level: <strong>High<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1600+ contributors on Github. Used by over 604 repositories on Github.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"5-spacy\">5. spaCy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_spacy-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"machine_learning_libraries_spacy\" class=\"wp-image-1466\" width=\"313\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_spacy-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_spacy-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_spacy-696x365.jpg 696w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_spacy-1068x561.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_spacy-800x420.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_spacy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/explosion\/spaCy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spaCy<\/a> is an open-source library developed by Explosion AI for natural language processing and written in Python and Cython.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>spaCy is an excellent library for feature engineering and extracting information on text data. spaCy is built for production use, and it can handle large volumes of text data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-curve-medium\">learning curve: Medium<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adoption-level-medium\">Adoption level: <strong>Medium<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>542+ contributors on Github. Used by over 26,000 repositories on Github. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"6-natural-language-toolkit-nltk\">6. Natural language toolkit (NLTK)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries__nltk.png\" alt=\"machine_learning_libraries__nltk\" class=\"wp-image-1467\" width=\"160\" height=\"174\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nltk\/nltk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NLTK<\/a> is an open-source library for natural language processing. It was initially developed by Steven Bird, Edward Loper, Ewan Klein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written in Python.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NLTK is very useful in preprocessing text data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-curve-easy\">learning  curve: <strong>easy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adoption-level-high\">Adoption level: <strong>High<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>340 contributors on Github. Used by over 107,000 repositories on Github. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"7-numpy\">7. Numpy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"335\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_numpy.png\" alt=\"machine_learning_libraries_numpy\" class=\"wp-image-1469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_numpy.png 335w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_numpy-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/numpy\/numpy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NumPy <\/a>is an open-source python library that offers an extensive collection of comprehensive mathematical functions. Numpy helps us work with arrays to perform various mathematical operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written in Python and C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim Hugunin created NumPy. Initially released in 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-curve-easy\">learning curve: <strong>easy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adoption-level-high\">Adoption level: <strong>High<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1,169+ contributors on Github. Used by over 736,000 repositories on Github.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"8-pandas\">8. Pandas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_pandas-1024x414.png\" alt=\"machine_learning_libraries_pandas\" class=\"wp-image-1470\" width=\"267\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_pandas-1024x414.png 1024w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_pandas-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_pandas-768x310.png 768w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_pandas-696x281.png 696w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_pandas-1068x432.png 1068w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_pandas-1039x420.png 1039w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_pandas.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pandas is an open-source data analysis library. It is an excellent tool for data analysis and manipulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pandas were created by Wes McKinney and released on 11 January 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written in Python, C, and Cython.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-curve-easy\">learning curve:<strong> easy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adoption-level-high\">Adoption level: <strong>High<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>2380+ contributors on Github. used by over 469,000 repositories on Github. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"9-matplotlib\">9. Matplotlib<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_matplotlib_logo.jpg\" alt=\"machine_learning_libraries_matplotlib_logo\" class=\"wp-image-1472\" width=\"299\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_matplotlib_logo.jpg 805w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_matplotlib_logo-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_matplotlib_logo-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_matplotlib_logo-696x330.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/matplotlib\/matplotlib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matplotlib<\/a> is one of the most popular plotting open-source libraries for the Python programming language. It is used to plot a graphical representation of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-curve-easy\">learning curve: <strong>easy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adoption-level-high\">Adoption level: <strong>High<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1,097+ contributors, used by over 387,000 repositories on Github.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"10-keras\">10. Keras<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_keras_logo-1024x297.png\" alt=\"machine_learning_libraries_keras_logo\" class=\"wp-image-1471\" width=\"293\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_keras_logo-1024x297.png 1024w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_keras_logo-300x87.png 300w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_keras_logo-768x223.png 768w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_keras_logo-696x202.png 696w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_keras_logo-1068x310.png 1068w, https:\/\/jenniferkwentoh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/machine_learning_libraries_keras_logo.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/keras-team\/keras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keras<\/a> is an open-source library built on top of TensorFlow for creating an artificial neural network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois Chollet originally developed it. Released in March 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-curve-medium\">learning curve:<strong> medium<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adoption-level-high\">Adoption level: <strong>high<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>910+ contributors on Github. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"conclusion\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These machine learning libraries and frameworks power a good number of machine learning products. 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