Plot the Data Points

Code to plot data points

We saw earlier how we might plot a rectangular array of numbers using the imshow() function. We want to do the same here, but we need to convert that list of comma-separated numbers into a suitable array. Here are the steps to do that:

1. Split that long text string of comma-separated values into individual values, using the commas as the place to do the splitting.

2. Ignore the first value and the label, and take the remaining list of $28 \times 28 = 784$ ...