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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

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.

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By Purbasha C

Dec 4, 2016

Great Introduction to machine learning. Found the Turi APIs and iPython Notebook approach very effective in getting acquainted to machine learning algorithms.

By Ramesh

Sep 21, 2016

Really good explanations of the topic with practical examples and implementations. Its like a quick recap of important concepts in ML. I would recommend this.

By Kurt D W

Mar 10, 2016

Great introduction to get familiar with the different concepts of machine learning especially when you have no ML background at all. Surely recommended by me.

By Arun M

Sep 15, 2019

Excellent course. Helpful to start learning Machine Learning courses. As the course is practical oriented, helps to learn many python libraries used for MI.

By Alejandro M

Nov 13, 2016

Excellent approach to get started with Machine Learning, good teachers that make entertaining to follow the lessons, thanks for the good work you put in it!

By Abhijit K

Jun 2, 2016

Very nice way of teaching such a difficult subject. I like both the instructors. Assignments are bit easy though and must have been on open source software.

By Chase M

Jan 21, 2016

Very approachable method that gets more in depth at a good pace. The later courses in the specialization dive deeper and get into the more complicated math.

By Jaganmohan R N

Oct 27, 2015

Very well organized and very interesting. Increasing the levels of curiosity and enjoyed the course to full extent. Thank you for offering the Great Course.

By Jacek K

Sep 6, 2020

Very good introduction to machine learning, along with some required python basics, good to pickup by any person, even without computer science background.

By Anusha D

May 3, 2016

Love the case study based approach where we solve for a particular problem as compared to just learning the techniques and wondering where to implement it.

By Leonard Z

Nov 5, 2019

one of the best courses, I saw in coursera so far. everything is well prepared/organized. The only issue is that the software is a little bit out of date.

By 张瑜

Apr 26, 2018

Good lesson which is focus on practical coding.It's better to learn incorporation with other lessons more algorithmic,may makes much better comprehension.

By Michael M

Feb 10, 2016

This was a fantastic course. Just enough to get your feet wet and more. A great overview of the real use cases for now and the future of machine learning.

By rohit s

Feb 9, 2016

Fresh approach towards ML. Grpahlab makes coding very easy. Deep learning explained in a very easy way to understand. Waiting for other sessions to start.

By Philippe L V

Nov 26, 2015

This course is very clear and gives an intuitive idea of what is machine learning. It is also very practical with python implementations for each chapter.

By JANE R

Nov 1, 2021

it's very good and very easy to understand what this course tell us about, very pleasure and happy that i can learn from coursera. thank you coursera! <3

By Md M R

Sep 21, 2020

Very good overview of ML.Emily and Carlos teach this class in a very interest way. They try to let student understand machine learning by some case study

By Muhammad R

Oct 16, 2018

It nice to learn this course.I want to suggest regarding installation there should guide(Video form) regarding setting up tool for this course.Thank you.

By Youssouf I C

Nov 7, 2016

Great course. It really helped me understand machine learning and it give me new ideas about deep learning and how to use it even when you have few data.

By Erica B

Jun 5, 2016

This is a fantastic introductory course on Machine Learning, I really enjoyed working on it. The course has a great balance between theory and practice.

By Patrick D

May 22, 2016

Love the structure for this course. Having a Case Study approach makes it easy to connect the abstract concepts and apply them to real worked use cases.

By Sundar J D

Feb 7, 2016

Overall a good Introduction to Machine Learning Course. Gives overview of all the major ML models and motivates the learner with real world applications.

By Hardik B

Jun 24, 2020

The teaching method "Using Case Study Approach" is Simply Awesome. All concepts cleared and the test was very much helpful to clear the remaining doubts

By Jesse W

Jun 16, 2016

Great class, definitely worth taking. I have worked on Machine Learning in the past and it helped me greatly. I am looking forward to all the courses.

By Artur R

Dec 22, 2015

I passed lots of Coursera courses, but this one is best of the best) Teachers - Carlos and Emily are magnificent, amazing lectors) I'm really impressed.