This course is part of the Machine Learning: Algorithms in the Real World Specialization

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This course takes you from understanding the fundamentals of a machine learning project. Learners will understand and implement supervised learning techniques on real case studies to analyze business case scenarios where decision trees, k-nearest neighbours and support vector machines are optimally used. Learners will also gain skills to contrast the practical consequences of different data preparation steps and describe common production issues in applied ML.
To be successful, you should have at least beginner-level background in Python programming (e.g., be able to read and code trace existing code, be comfortable with conditionals, loops, variables, lists, dictionaries and arrays). You should have a basic understanding of linear algebra (vector notation) and statistics (probability distributions and mean/median/mode).

This is the second course of the Applied Machine Learning Specialization brought to you by Coursera and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.

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Machine Learning: Algorithms in the Real World Specialization

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Machine Learning: Algorithms in the Real World Specialization

Approx. 9 hours to complete

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Anna Koop

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Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, University of Alberta

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

4 hours to complete

Classification using Decision Trees and k-NN

Welcome to Supervised Learning, Tip to Tail! This week we'll go over the basics of supervised learning, particularly classification, as well as teach you about two classification algorithms: decision trees and k-NN. You'll get started programming on the platform through Jupyter notebooks and start to familiarize yourself with all the issues that arise when using machine learning for classification.

4 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 46 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes

8 videos

Introduction to the Course1m

What does a classifier actually do?5m

Classification in scikit-learn3m

What are decision trees?6m

Generalization and overfitting8m

Classification using k-nearest neighbours8m

Distance measures8m

Weekly summary2m

4 readings

Math Review10m

Scikitlearn documentation for decision trees (Optional)10m

Scikitlearn documentation for random forests (Optional)10m

Scikitlearn documentation for k-nearest neighbours (Optional)10m

2 practice exercises

Supervised Learning Basics

Understanding Classification with Decision Trees and k-NN20m

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Functions for Fun and Profit

Welcome to the second week of the course! In this week you'll learn all about regression algorithms, the other side of supervised learning. We'll introduce you to the idea of finding lines, optimization criteria, and all the associated issues. Through regression we'll see the interactions between model complexity and accuracy, and you'll get a first taste of how regression and classification might relate.

2 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 62 min), 1 reading, 4 quizzes

9 videos

Line-fitting6m

Optimal line-fitting8m

Loss and Convexity7m

Gradient Descent9m

Nonlinear features and model complexity6m

Bias and variance tradeoff6m

Regularizers5m

Loss for Classification7m

Weekly summary4m

1 reading

Scikitlearn documentation for linear regression (Optional)10m

4 practice exercises

Regression Basics

Understanding Model Complexity

From Regression to Classification2m

The Regression side of Supervised Learning20m

Week

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Regression for Classification: Support Vector Machines

This week we'll be diving straight in to using regression for classification. We'll describe all the fundamental pieces that make up the support vector machine algorithms, so that you can understand how many seemingly unrelated machine learning algorithms tie together. We'll introduce you to logistic regression, neural networks, and support vector machines, and show you how to implement two of those.

3 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 34 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Contrasting Models

Now at the tail end of the course, we're going to go over how to know how well your model is actually performing and what you can do to get even better performance from it. We'll review assessment questions particular to regression and classification, and introduce some other tools that really help you analyze your model performance. The topics covered this week aim to give you confidence in your models, so you're ready to unlock the power of machine learning for your business goals.

1 hour to complete

8 videos (Total 46 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS: SUPERVISED LEARNING TIP TO TAIL

by MJun 22, 2020

Easy and engaging. But would loved it more if some more coding examples were given.

by KGMay 9, 2020

The explanation of the topics are easy to understand due to the dynamics of theory, practical exercises and quizzes.

by VDAug 31, 2020

really good, wish it had covered random forest and decision trees and other supervised models as well.

by DSMay 6, 2020

Excellent course for an overview of different ML algorithms. The course is made from a perspective of giving insights in process and not too many mathematical details.

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About the Machine Learning: Algorithms in the Real World Specialization

This specialization is for professionals who have heard the buzz around machine learning and want to apply machine learning to data analysis and automation. Whether finance, medicine, engineering, business or other domains, this specialization will set you up to define, train, and maintain a successful machine learning application.

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