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About the Course

This course will introduce the learner to applied machine learning, focusing more on the techniques and methods than on the statistics behind these methods. The course will start with a discussion of how machine learning is different than descriptive statistics, and introduce the scikit learn toolkit through a tutorial. The issue of dimensionality of data will be discussed, and the task of clustering data, as well as evaluating those clusters, will be tackled. Supervised approaches for creating predictive models will be described, and learners will be able to apply the scikit learn predictive modelling methods while understanding process issues related to data generalizability (e.g. cross validation, overfitting). The course will end with a look at more advanced techniques, such as building ensembles, and practical limitations of predictive models. By the end of this course, students will be able to identify the difference between a supervised (classification) and unsupervised (clustering) technique, identify which technique they need to apply for a particular dataset and need, engineer features to meet that need, and write python code to carry out an analysis. This course should be taken after Introduction to Data Science in Python and Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation in Python and before Applied Text Mining in Python and Applied Social Analysis in Python....

Top reviews

AS

Nov 26, 2020

great experience and learning lots of technique to apply on real world data, and get important and insightful information from raw data. motivated to proceed further in this domain and course as well.

FL

Oct 13, 2017

Very well structured course, and very interesting too! Has made me want to pursue a career in machine learning. I originally just wanted to learn to program, without true goal, now I have one thanks!!

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By Syed S

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Apr 12, 2020

The explanation could have been much better.

By Sagar J

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Mar 21, 2021

Good start but i was very boring later on.

By Jeremy D

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Jul 10, 2017

The topics were good, but too many were d

By Ryan S

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Dec 12, 2017

Homeworks are inconvenient to submit

By PIYUSH A

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May 16, 2020

The narration was a bit boring.

By shreyas

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Jun 29, 2020

Teacher wasn't very good

By Abir H R

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Jun 30, 2020

very long videos

By Wojciech G

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Oct 28, 2017

To fast paced.

By PRAGATHI S P 2

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Apr 10, 2022

dufufu

By TANMAY H B 2

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Oct 29, 2021

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By Eduardo A R O

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Aug 4, 2022

I didn't like the course very much, I was expecting more details in the coding part, but I only watched Mr. Collins-Thompson reading the code without making a deeper description of it, by compairing it with the two previous courses this one hasn't been as well as the others. Fortunately, I found it on free with my MOOC but if you have to pay for it, I trully recommend you to buy the Andrew Ng's course available on Coursera as well.

Finally I would like to say that this course was developed in 2017 or 2018 and it hasn't been changed or updated, you can find MANY mistakes on the labs at the end of each week, so if you're going to make the labs, I recommend you to take a look a the forums first instead of go ahead with the first ones, or maybe you're going to take 0/100 in each evaluation. So please update it, and maybe post the slides of each lesson, that will help on each exam wich are difficult for the way the lessons are taught.

By Aarya P

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Sep 30, 2020

Really disappointed with the course ...you may ask why??

The first thing is the instructor , super boring. The instructor (with all due respect) was very dry and the lectures were super uninteresting. When he keeps on talking code, but doesn't really explain stuff. The material and lectures were dry and colorless.

Me without having good statistics background had huge difficulties understanding the concepts. Please i recommend everyone to have good knowledge in statistics before starting the course. ABSOLUTELY NOT THE BEGINNER LEVEL AND NEITHER INTERMIDIATE LEVEL .the course is quiteeeee difficult.

You also need to have a lot of self study , which i am not a big fan of. I hope they make the course more fun rather than a man constantly talking on the screen .

By Daniel J

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Apr 30, 2021

I found this course quite challenging to complete. The assignments are difficult (which is good, they are practical and I enjoyed them) and only a fraction of things is explained in the videos. I really found much better learning materials around the web (and for free!). For applied machine learning course, I would expect more practical videos. Also the process of submitting assignments is really frustrating, I spent half the time correcting errors that were not related to the assignment objective. If this course was not part of specialization, I would not complete it.

By Douglas H

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Apr 10, 2021

Lectures are good but they expect you to extract too many fine details from them in order to pass the quizzes and assignments. You'd have to watch these oral lessons ten times in order to pass the tests, which are needlessly nitpicky.

By Sebastiaan B

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Apr 16, 2023

Nice course, but from the discussions in the forums, there seems to be an issue with the grading that several users report. I see no responses from the last three month from faculty. This leave affected users (including me) blocked.

By Oswaldo C

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Aug 22, 2020

Los videos no son suficientemente extensos ni para explicar el código, ni para explicar la teoría detrás de los algoritmos, se queda a medio camino de los dos siendo insuficiente en ambos casos

By Jean-Michel P

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Jun 2, 2021

The better course of this stack... and that's all the positive feedback I have. This course is still very poorly designed and unstructured with a bunch of unfixed mistakes after 4+ years.

By Bart S

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Oct 20, 2021

The videos were presented at a snail's pace, I needed to play them at 1.75 speed. The python notebook assignments were full of bugs and errors which was quite frustrating.

By Eric B

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Jan 1, 2023

Material hasn't been maintained or updated for years, it's full of errors and broken links. Lectures are very low quality with lots of mistakes and poor quality graphics.

By Vjaceslavs M

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Apr 4, 2021

This course is outdated by few years and not been updated in general with lots of mistakes in assignments and on slides making it very not ejoyable to use.

By David C

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Nov 8, 2020

Not as good as prev. courses. Univ. of mic. should update or get ride of this module

By Gallina S

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Nov 19, 2021

Good curriculumn, nice assignments. Very poorly presented by the professor!!!

By Magid E

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Mar 26, 2023

I'm sorry to hear that, but if you accidentally delete your assignment, it's important to understand that there is no way to restore it. Unfortunately, even customer service won't be able to assist you in retrieving your lost work.

It's crucial to always keep backups of your work to avoid any potential disasters. Deleting important files can happen to anyone, but it's up to us to take preventative measures to ensure that our work is safe and secure.

In summary, losing an assignment due to accidental deletion can be a frustrating and disappointing experience. However, it's important to learn from this mistake and take the necessary precautions to avoid similar situations in the future.

By Paul C

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Mar 27, 2021

Frankly the quiz questions are ridiculous and no explanation is given why answers are considered incorrect. The wording of the answers is not clear and any from 5 is 120 permutations. You get three attempts and then you have to wait 8 hours. Not great if you are studying part-time. I gave a star for the quality of the video which seemed good although I already know the theory from my university course. However, there was no written material - which again helps answer the questions. This is only a coursera courses, tests should be there to help learning not hinder it.

By Markus B

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Apr 15, 2023

While I really appreciated the preceding courses, the topics in this course where poorly explained. The quizzes where not helpful at all and annoying.

Also, there was no support at all in the forum. Particularly when there are errors in the notebooks, I would expect support from the staff.