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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

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.

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 Satish K D

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Nov 25, 2018

Very informative in basics of Machine Learning. It sets the stage for a deep dive into the topics of machine learning like Regression, Classification, Clustering etc.

By Chengran Y

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Mar 2, 2018

This course is really useful, as a overview of the whole specialization. The quiz for theory and python implementation strengthen the key points for each module/week.

By Uday A

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Jun 14, 2017

A perfect introduction to ML. Couldn't ask for more. 6 weeks of coverage is neither shallow nor too deep. Sets up the stage nicely for a deeper dive in next sessions.

By Vaibhav O

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Dec 25, 2016

Great course to begin your journey into ML

Briefly introduces each topic to give a jist about it and also provides a good starting point for using python in ML context

By Angel G C

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Dec 13, 2015

In a couple of Case Studies it gives you a wide idea about the almost unlimited potential of Machine Learning while it encourages you to learn more and more about it.

By CO17 3 G

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Jul 7, 2020

it was really amazing to learn from these mentors. They were really humble, clear and had an interesting way to teach. I would love to attend more of them in future.

By Deleted A

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Sep 18, 2018

This course gives a really easy but clear concept for machine learning with examples! I hope I can learn something further with other courses in this specialization.

By William C

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Oct 22, 2017

Fantastic course, great 'learn-by-doing' introduction to ML, really entertaining teachers kept me alert throughout each session. It was great fun and I learnt a ton!

By Sergio B S M

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Jul 12, 2020

The course is very well structured, interesting lectures with real-life applications, and the programming examples and assignments were very useful and instructive.

By Stefan v D

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Feb 4, 2020

A great foundational introduction to Machine learning concepts. Ideal for people that have some background in maths and programming but no career in this direction.

By Prashant S

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Oct 19, 2018

This is a brilliant stepping stone for Machine Learning world. Basics are being discussed and explained in a very simple manner. thanks to the teachers and Coursera

By Shital M

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Nov 20, 2017

Fantastic overview of various machine learning methods. Very interesting way of exposing concepts using case study approach which makes it more engaging and useful.

By Fernando M P

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Aug 10, 2017

This course is a wonderfull introduction to the Machine Learning. It provides a good start point which is very helpful with the other courses of the specialization.

By Fabricio N

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Mar 27, 2016

Best course in data science out there. Believe me, I did all 4 other Specialization, some of then very good, some of then no quite si, but this one is far the best.

By Chris H

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Dec 24, 2015

A great introduction. Good relevant examples and thoughtful data sets were provided for the exercises. Both lecturers were engaging and clearly knew their subjects.

By Muhammad M

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Jul 21, 2020

The course is easy and good for beginners. Specifically, case study approach is quite good and furthermore hands on practice assignments greatly improves learning.

By Sumit

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Jul 8, 2016

Excellent course, gives good overview of all the different ML algorithms.

Case studies and assignments are really good and help a lot in understanding the concepts.

By Ali A

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Mar 21, 2016

This course builds a quick but engaging overview of machine learning. The structure is more than amazing, the style of teaching is very narrative and very helpful.

By Liliana R (

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Jan 22, 2016

It is a great course to learn the fundamentals of Machine Learning, also Emily and Carlos are excellent tutors, they explain very well and they give good examples.

By Vinícius N d O

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Oct 6, 2020

Good course. Strongly application-oriented, intermediate level but with some basic points as well. I think the course could improve a bit on the theoretical side.

By Gyrdymov I

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Nov 12, 2017

Amazing course. It has given me good base knowledge of ML algorithms, I consider the course a "map" for further exploration of Machine Learning world. Good start!

By Marcus V M d S

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Oct 1, 2017

Thank you very much for this course! I really appreciate the effort put into the notebooks and the preparing of the data, and the graphlab library is really cool.

By Guo X

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Aug 10, 2017

the course is great. I love case study approach for the machine learning foundation. I really love to go on learning in the following parts of the specialization.

By Ricardo J F

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Sep 17, 2016

I believe it would be very useful if the authors could provide a lecture review about python commands. Specially the ones they are going to use during the course.

By Christopher G

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Jan 25, 2016

Excellent, practical introduction to the topic -- particularly by using use cases that everyone can relate to in order to understand how machine learning "works".