This first course in the IBM Machine Learning Professional Certificate introduces you to Machine Learning and the content of the professional certificate. In this course you will realize the importance of good, quality data. You will learn common techniques to retrieve your data, clean it, apply feature engineering, and have it ready for preliminary analysis and hypothesis testing.
Exploratory Data Analysis for Machine Learning
Exploratory Data Analysis for Machine Learning
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Instructors: Joseph Santarcangelo
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Skills you'll gain
- Statistical Hypothesis Testing
- Statistical Inference
- Machine Learning
- Data Import/Export
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Feature Engineering
- Statistical Analysis
- Data Preprocessing
- Statistical Methods
- Data Science
- Anomaly Detection
- Data Access
- Data Manipulation
- Data Analysis
- Probability & Statistics
- Applied Machine Learning
- Data Cleansing
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AR
Reviewed on Jun 15, 2025
I found the course very helpful, It taught me how to extract useful information from data by exploring different visualization and feature engineering tricks.
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Reviewed on Apr 23, 2024
The course includes hands-on exercises that allows us to apply the learned EDA techniques to real-world data. This practical approach helps solidify my understanding.
AP
Reviewed on Feb 25, 2023
This course was amazing. I always assumed that EDA was the challenging part of ML, But in this course I found it so cool. can't wait for the next course.
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