How to do it...

This section will walk through the steps to visualize the MNIST handwritten images in a Jupyter notebook:

1. Import the following libraries, numpy and matplotlib, and configure matplotlib to plot inline using the following script:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

2. Plot the first two sample images using the following script:

for i in range(2):
    image = data.train.images[i]
    image = np.array(image, dtype='float')
    label = data.train.labels[i]
    pixels = image.reshape((28, 28))
    plt.imshow(pixels, cmap='gray')
    print('-----------------')
    print(label)
    plt.show()