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Fake News Detection with Machine Learning
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Fake News Detection with Machine Learning

Taught in English

Ryan Ahmed

Instructor: Ryan Ahmed

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Beginner level

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2 hours
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No downloads or installation required
Only available on desktop
Hands-on learning
4.6

(246 reviews)

What you'll learn

  • Create a pipeline to remove stop-words ,perform tokenization and padding.

  • Understand the theory and intuition behind Recurrent Neural Networks and LSTM

  • Train the deep learning model and assess its performance

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Guided Project

Learn, practice, and apply job-ready skills with expert guidance

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 hours
Learn at your own pace
No downloads or installation required
Only available on desktop
Hands-on learning
4.6

(246 reviews)

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About this Guided Project

Learn step-by-step

In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:

  1. Understand the Problem Statement and business case 

  2. Import libraries and datasets

  3. Perform Exploratory Data Analysis

  4. Perform Data Cleaning

  5. Visualize the cleaned data

  6. Prepare the data by tokenizing and padding

  7. Understand the theory and intuition behind Recurrent Neural Networks

  8. Understand the theory and intuition behind LSTM

  9. Build and train the model

  10. Assess trained model performance

Recommended experience

Basic python programming and mathematics.

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4.9 (17 ratings)
Ryan Ahmed
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  • Available only on desktop

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