Do I need to convert my data to sequence before using Elman neural network.

my input and output data are both matrices where rows are spatial units (e.g., states, provinces or counties) and columns are time points (i.e., years, days or months). I saw the data in the example Matlab codes are converted to sequences:

P=round(rand(1,8));
T=[0 (P(1:end-1)+P(2:end)==2)];
net=newelm([0 1], [5 1], {'tansig', 'logsig'}, 'trainbfg');
Pseq=con2seq(P); %convert to sequence
Tseq=con2seq(T); %convert to sequence

Answer 1

[Greg Heath]

Yes.