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About the Course

Do you have data and wonder what it can tell you? Do you need a deeper understanding of the core ways in which machine learning can improve your business? Do you want to be able to converse with specialists about anything from regression and classification to deep learning and recommender systems? In this course, you will get hands-on experience with machine learning from a series of practical case-studies. At the end of the first course you will have studied how to predict house prices based on house-level features, analyze sentiment from user reviews, retrieve documents of interest, recommend products, and search for images. Through hands-on practice with these use cases, you will be able to apply machine learning methods in a wide range of domains. This first course treats the machine learning method as a black box. Using this abstraction, you will focus on understanding tasks of interest, matching these tasks to machine learning tools, and assessing the quality of the output. In subsequent courses, you will delve into the components of this black box by examining models and algorithms. Together, these pieces form the machine learning pipeline, which you will use in developing intelligent applications. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Identify potential applications of machine learning in practice. -Describe the core differences in analyses enabled by regression, classification, and clustering. -Select the appropriate machine learning task for a potential application. -Apply regression, classification, clustering, retrieval, recommender systems, and deep learning. -Represent your data as features to serve as input to machine learning models. -Assess the model quality in terms of relevant error metrics for each task. -Utilize a dataset to fit a model to analyze new data. -Build an end-to-end application that uses machine learning at its core. -Implement these techniques in Python....

Top reviews

PM

Aug 18, 2019

The course was well designed and delivered by all the trainers with the help of case study and great examples.

The forums and discussions were really useful and helpful while doing the assignments.

SZ

Dec 19, 2016

Great course!

Emily and Carlos teach this class in a very interest way. They try to let student understand machine learning by some case study. That worked well on me. I like this course very much.

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By Rohan C

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Jul 19, 2018

Emily and Carlos made this course really enjoyable. The Case Study approach really helped with better understanding of many concepts. I highly recommend this course for beginners.

By Stavros

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Dec 4, 2016

It's a very good and very structured course which gives you a very nice insight of all the basic concepts in machine learning today and prepares you for the next courses to come.

By Rohan K A

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Mar 20, 2016

It is a great start towards the world of Machine Learning, very nice experience to study concepts based on different case studies. assignments are also challenging and interesting

By Ben J

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Nov 25, 2015

I really enjoyed the course. I found all of the problem sets to be useful to reinforce what was explained in the course without being extremely difficult to get working correctly.

By Shawon P

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May 16, 2021

This is the best course i found on machine learning so far available online which takes strong knowledge in Python and good understandings of mathematics. I loved it by my heart.

By Muhammad A

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Nov 5, 2018

This course is very much helpful for me to get understanding about python, deep learning, neural networks and the things like this. Thank you so much for help and guide me a lot.

By Pooja G

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Aug 7, 2018

Loved the course content. Particularly loved the usage of iPython notebook. very relevant & useful. Special thanks to the course instructors for helping guide through the course.

By Remy d R

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May 6, 2016

Excellent course, highly recommended. Hands-on and really easy to follow. Would love some more background / reading about the applied statistics though (since this is new to me).

By Cristhian C (

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Jun 23, 2020

Very good course on the fundamentals of Machine Learning. It introduces introductory and practical regression analysis, classification, recommendation systems and deep learning.

By Francisco P

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Jun 24, 2017

Thanks to the teachers, they prepared exciting, complete and interesting clases. The course is very useful to understand the main areas in machine learning. Totally recommended!

By JONATHAN F G H

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Sep 1, 2020

The use of case studies helps a lot to understand the concepts easily. The teachers' presentations were very funny and clear to understand the concepts presented in the course.

By Nikhil R

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Jul 11, 2019

Really a great course for getting started in machine learning, it helped me a lot for learning the fundamentals before jumping to the more complex parts in the Machine learning

By Daniel T

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Oct 9, 2016

A fantastic course! The case study approach really makes a difference. I can't stand purely theoretical courses so this one really stands out. Best ML course online hands down.

By Steven G L

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Oct 28, 2015

This is a great course that presented a review of the introductory concepts of Machine Learning, furthermore the implementation of the techniques are simple and easy to deploy

By Matt M

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Oct 19, 2015

I have worked through a number of machine learning courses, and this is by far the best. The course materials and the ipython notebook walk-throughs are incredibly informative.

By Sivakumar R

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Sep 18, 2018

Very practical and use case based method allows to understand concepts. Hands on training brings confidence to non-software student like me. Thank you for the valuable course.

By Nand B P

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Jun 26, 2017

Best Introductory course for Machine Learning for beginners as it shows an abstract yet hands-on type of approach to cover all the important topics related to the ML concepts.

By vivek m

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Mar 3, 2017

Best course to get start with ML as it has lot of real world example to get your hand dirty, which will help us to develop approach 'how to solve real world problem using ML '

By Farouq O

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Feb 3, 2016

The course did a good job of balancing depth with breadth. It's a well rounded course that provides a a student with enough information to tackle intermediate-advanced topics.

By Aleksandr B

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Dec 12, 2015

Very best initial level course that will introduce anyone to one of the modern ml tools and its usage, with a bit of needed theoretical science (its only an approach aint it?)

By Sagar S

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Jun 7, 2020

This is a very well designed course to build the Machine Learning Foundations for any level. And also its a perfect segway to remaining detailed courses of the Specialization

By Shah H

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Dec 6, 2019

Enhance my knowledge in ML and skilled me to do best Research in my MS Study, Thanks to COURSERA and University of Washington to give financial aid to learn Machine Learning.

By Parth P

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Apr 1, 2018

Hey This is Excellent course for beginners. The homework assignments are designed to grasp concepts easily and in most practical way possible. Thanks for such a great course.

By VITTE

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Mar 11, 2018

Very interesting, useful, and up to date, this course gives the main ideas with clarity, and relevant applications, in a time format that is feasible for an active engineer.

By Dheeraj A

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Oct 28, 2016

Course combines Real Word Applications with simple implementation via IPython Notebooks. Professors

know their stuff but are super chill. Pretty good assignments and quizzes.