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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

BL

Oct 16, 2016

Very good overview of ML. The GraphLab api wasn't that bad, and also it was very wise of the instructors to allow the use of other ML packages. Overall i enjoyed it very much and also leaned very much

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.

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By Daniel J

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Jan 7, 2017

excessive use of GraphLab create which is not an industry standard.

By Jianfeng G

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May 28, 2022

Well designed, but too outdated. No learning support at all.

By Keith P D C

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Oct 28, 2019

Two stars because of GraphLab! Otherwise great concepts!

By #volkswagen T

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Jun 7, 2022

This is out of date. I cannot get week one to work.

By William P

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Jan 17, 2024

Very disappointed in this course. It is taught using a niche library called "Turicreate", which is not compatible with Windows and is only compatible up to Python 3.8. With much difficulty I managed to install it using WSL and an older Python version - only to then find the lectures are taught in GraphLab, a different albeit similar library. While it was stated that all the notebooks had been updated to TuriCreate, the very first notebook I opened was still in GraphLab. Moreover, since nobody in industry actually uses Turicreate, it feels pointless to build up working knowledge of this library which you will never use again after completion. Overall dissatisfied and have abandoned the course.

By M D 1

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Feb 27, 2022

This course defenitely needs a major overhaul. While both the Lecturers did an amazing job in handling lectures, the programming assignemets were a nightmare to me. For instance, this course was designed in python 2xx and used certain libraries that were once accessible to everyone. However, they are now propreitry and cannot be accessed witout buying them. So had to use packages like pandas and numpy in python 3xx. So anyone thinking of doing this course, make sure u have adequate support using these packages in python 3xx. Defenitely not a course for beginner.

By Christos P

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Nov 2, 2022

WHY YOU MAKE THIS SO HARD TO US TO INSTALL THE PACKAGES AND THE LIBRARIES???

I HAVE TO UNENROLL THE COURSE BECAUSE I COULDNT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS OF HOW TO DOWNLOAD THE STUPID TURI. IN ALL OTHER COURSES THEY SAY DOWNLOAD THIS FILES AND USE THEM ... BUT NOOOO YOU HAD TO MAKE IT SO DIFFICULT .. WE HAVE TO USE CMD AND MAKE VIRTUAL MACHINE AND DOWNLOAD FROM THERE AND THEN DOWNLOAD JUPITER AND INSTAL AND YOU DONT EVEN GIVE THE RIGHT INSTRUCTIONS... I HAD TO SEARCH TO GOOGLE YOUTUBE ANS STILL YOUR STUPID PACKAGES ARE A PAIN IN THE A$$

By Sara K

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Sep 29, 2021

The teachers are stiff and, although they say the course involves a case study approach, you start with the basic Python assignments that will not apply to the cases. Also, they push a tech that does not seem to be the most commonly used one in Machine Learning. I wish Coursera would put a date on these courses so we can see when the courses are older, and therefore expect the content to be outdated.

By Nethmini K

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Jul 21, 2022

Plenty of issues with this course. The main issue is with the assignments. The instructions use graphLab but we have to use turicreate and sometimes this gets confusing.

The material is outdated.

The assignments do not have a clear structure. Too much jargon. A clear step-wise approach would have been better.

Disappointed overall.

By Sumit D

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Oct 24, 2023

Requires outdated software that doesn't run on Windows and doesn't run on Python newer than 3.8 (2019 release!). Getting the package they recommend (Turicreate) to work on a new machine is a huge headache. They also haven't updated the videos in years it seems. The response time from instructors is too long. Poorly done!

By Todd W

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Dec 21, 2021

The tools needed for the course were impossible or nearly impossible) to get set up. The discussion forums were full of users struggling and others offering very complex and ways to try, yet none of them seemed to work. I spent about 5 hours failing to install the tools and finally quit the class.

By Spiro D

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Nov 18, 2021

i wish i read the reviews before starting this course... it is well explained but the fact that i am unable to load a dataframe due to being on windows is mindboggeling and greedy from the creators of the course (that happen to be the creators of this package). just aweful

By Sreekanth K J

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Jun 9, 2021

Please mention that users need to use turicreate and sframes etc "only" to complete the assignments.

it is wrongly mentioned that one can complete assignments using any tool but very first assignment is forcing us to use turicreate and sFrames !!

By Dennis L

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Jul 28, 2023

After an entire day and all the tutorials and instructions, TuriCreate still does not run (Windows)... without it, the course is pointless... too bad, otherwise great inputs and instructors

By Santosh K

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Nov 14, 2021

Uses Outdated graphlab. Very difficult to follow the instructions. Tried using the turicreate but its very problematic. The courses should ease of use tools rather than something outdated.

By Sahil K

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Nov 24, 2020

Software installation was a big trouble and took nearly month as this course was in graphlab, but we need to use turicreate or other toolset.

By Harry W

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Jan 6, 2022

You'll spend more time trying to get the correct versions and plugins working than you will studying. The course needs updating.

By Konstantinos V

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Nov 3, 2021

Started this course with great enthusiasm but end up with frustration on being unable to install Turi Create with python 3.10.

By Aaron B

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Jun 29, 2022

This course is out of date and really useless at this point. Do not waste your time. None of the code or examples work.

By Muhammad A A J

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Jul 12, 2021

This course is very old and waste of time because libraries used in here are not available for new versions of python.

By Abdullah B

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Jan 27, 2023

Out-of-date content without support on how to set things up. Wasted 10 hours just to try and get things to work.

By Marc G

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Nov 30, 2022

Impossible to activate turi create on windows. it's a waste of time to discover during the course.

By Bowen S

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Nov 25, 2021

poorly structed with questions & answers

the packages used for the course has been out dated

By Kailash H S N

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Aug 25, 2021

very bad , theyuse SF frames which is not in use now ..very hard to do the quiz

By Pratick B

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Aug 8, 2021

Installation of Sforce and turi was not shown adequately enough.