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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 Felix H

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Jan 16, 2021

The combination of assignments and lectures worked niceley for me. Good feedback on the discussion forums, too. Only thing which should be improved is the auto grader. The course introduces a lot of algorithms, but also gives you insight into how to evaluate their performance. In the final assignment it all comes together, which is always nice :-)

By Maurizio

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Jun 6, 2019

I think it gives a great overview on Machine Learning and Sklearn. Nonetheless i noticed it is less curated compared to the prevoius courses in this specialization (wrong filenames, unfunctioning links, old version of pandas respect the one used till now). Anyway it worthed and I'll give a look also at the optional unsupervised learning part

By Çağdaş Y

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Oct 22, 2017

The teacher's voice is not motivating, it made me fall asleep all the time. But content is surely good. It's a perfect checkpoint after Andrew Ng's machine learning courses, by making experimental practices over theoric practices. Seriously, speaker needs to speak more alive! I don't want to hear deep breathe noises when watching a course :)

By Mohit K

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May 24, 2019

I Took this course blindly without knowing much about data visualization libraries. It took me a month or so to learn them first and then attempt this course further. The course study material is very decent but the assignments are pretty good and tricky. It is definitely a must-go-for course and I would surely recommend to my colleagues.

By Samchuk D

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May 30, 2018

This one is very good and informative.

Although there is no explanations how to decide what type of preprocessing do on data set (to choose whether or not to do winsorization, convert categorical features to one-hot for linear models and to labeled for trees, etc) it still very helpful in understanding of PRACTICAL part of machine learning

By Sridhar V

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Jun 12, 2020

This course was very interesting. Probably the longest course (duration wise) in this specialization. This course had to cover a lot of ground in 4 weeks time. Thoroughly enjoyed the assignments and it was challenging as well!. Gave 4 star because there are minor problems wrt. Autograder. But content wise there are no complains.

By Narendhiran R c

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Feb 16, 2020

Lectures were a bit slow, I personally felt pace could be increased and more content could be covered in areas like boosting and all.The assignments gave me a hands-on approach in using sklearn library.I felt it was over-all a very good course and would definitely recommend it for others.

Thank You

Yours sincerely,

Narendhiran.R

By Chaitanya D

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Jul 4, 2017

Interesting course, was curious about what all things will be covered in this course. It touches most of the topics that one should be aware of ML. Only thing that I felt bit overwhelming was the amount of material which was covered in 4 weeks. Could easily be stretched to 5/6 to make it less demanding for a novice person.

By Marcin B

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May 26, 2020

Good stuff :) However approaching final assignments I was missing more info about preparation of an input data. As far as I know it is to some extent covered by first course of entire Specialization. So, I plan to take this one as well. But overall - very good intro to ML in my view. Thumbs up University of Michigan :)

By Alan E

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Feb 5, 2018

Great course, with a very practical overview of the different options available for machine learning models using Python. The concepts are the same as in R-based machine learning, but this course was great for getting experience with which Python functions to use for various machine learning models.

By Alex N

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Jul 24, 2023

This was a demanding course, requiring one to listen to many long lectures, do a lot of extra reading and research online for more in-depth machine learning knowledge in order to answer all the questions and problems. It was time intensive yet provided a good background on machine learning models.

By KUMAR M

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Nov 25, 2019

Great course. It doesn't confuses you very deep mathematics involved in machine learning. Rather, with a touch of it, it focus more on how and when to apply the models in Machine learning. How to evaluate and optimize them. It's really Fantastic with it's hands on projects in assignments.

By Elizaveta P

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May 15, 2018

This course is very cool and interesting. One thing, it would be more useful for me to have a little test/exercise after or in the middle of every video - to try, how I understood the material. Like in Andrew NG course or in Text Mining.

Anyway, thanks for a great course and your work!

By Amina B

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Jun 12, 2020

Great course, somehow assignments are not always on the same level, the first was easy, the last seemed to be very complex, but was not, the assignment instructions were misleading. Anyway, I enjoyed this course too much and I want now to improve my abilities in underlying theories.

By Lalitha G

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Nov 5, 2019

Not only in the last week, all the weeks can have assignments which are like projects. That may give more sense of analyzing and understanding the process of model selection, application of supervised learning techniques. But the course is good, and i have learnt it in faster pace.

By Lu E

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Nov 7, 2017

kind of a good course. However, I think too much things have been put into this four-week class. All methods, for example, random forest method need a lot of practice. In the four week, I think I am not familiar with most of these method and I need to practice more in the future.

By Ryan M

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Jul 26, 2021

I've learned a lot of basic concepts about common machine learning models and how to apply these tools using python. Although practices and deep understanding are still not enough, this course is really great and worth learning for beginners who want to learn more in this area.

By Bret

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Jun 16, 2017

This was a very practical course with a lot of useful stuff! My main frustration was that the final assignment could have used more starter code, as I spent way more time trying to get the data to load properly than I did on finding a model to score high enough for full marks

By Loi H H

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Jun 10, 2022

Lectures teaches you about the various ML algorithms available. Quizzes are challenging and lab assignments are simply an application of the libraries. Lab assignments are not that challenging but you need to be good at using pandas/numpy. Overall, it is a good course.

By saikanth g

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Apr 13, 2020

Totally nice course,As it is Applied Machine Learning all lectures do not go deep and just touch on the topics.Did not face any issue with autograder this time but its better to use newest version of jupyter notebook.The teaching staff were highly responsive.

By Gaurav

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Jun 8, 2020

The course was really well constructed, but there wasn't much to teach in it like just use this code and get the values.

I strongly feel that all the assignments should have been like the assignment of week 4.

None the less, it was a great learning experience.

By Daniel W

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Jul 9, 2017

Pretty good. I really like the quality of the notebooks provided. Also assignments are interesting.

I would improve quizzes. Some questions were really hard to understand or misleading.

Also, I would really love to learn more in depth about the algorithms.

By Amit P

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Dec 26, 2019

This course is an excellent run through of the pipeline for developing, running and evaluating machine learning models. The video lectures were monotonous and long, though. The last assignment was especially meaningful and enjoyable. Highly recommended.

By Hammad U D A K

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Apr 4, 2022

As compared to the previous courses in the same series, the content felt longer and slower. There were also issues in many videos that had to be corrected using pop-ups. It would be wise to fix the videos for future students. Everything else was great.

By Donald V

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Dec 17, 2017

If I could I would give this course 3.5 stars. Most of the coverage of the concepts in this course were pretty light and there were several issues with the autograder being difficult that made this course a lot less enjoyable than it could have been.