This Specialization equips learners with end-to-end skills for training, validating, and optimizing machine learning models in production environments. Through hands-on labs and practical exercises, you'll learn to transform raw data into model-ready datasets, train and compare multiple algorithm families, evaluate model performance using appropriate metrics, and implement validation strategies including cross-validation and explainability techniques like SHAP. You'll also build production-grade skills in ML pipeline orchestration, experiment versioning, resource monitoring, debugging ML-specific failures, and monitoring deployed models for drift. By completion, you'll confidently deliver reproducible, cost-efficient, and reliable ML workflows that meet real-world business requirements.

Applied Learning Project

Throughout this Specialization, learners complete hands-on projects that mirror real-world ML engineering challenges. You'll build reproducible modeling workflows using experiment tracking, compare XGBoost and Random Forest models for cost-effectiveness, implement k-fold cross-validation and SHAP-based explainability on imbalanced datasets, design ETL pipelines feeding feature stores, and debug ML-specific failures using structured testing workflows. Each project emphasizes practical decision-making—selecting algorithms based on resource constraints, validating models against hold-out data, monitoring production drift with PSI metrics, and communicating evidence-based recommendations to stakeholders.