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Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Welcome
Machine learning is everywhere, but is often operating behind the scenes.This introduction to the specialization provides you with insights into the power of machine learning, and the multitude of intelligent applications you personally will be able to dev...
- Week 2 - Regression: Predicting House Prices
This week you will build your first intelligent application that makes predictions from data.We will explore this idea within the context of our first case study, predicting house prices, where you will create models that predict a continuous value (price) ...
- Week 3 - Classification: Analyzing Sentiment
How do you guess whether a person felt positively or negatively about an experience, just from a short review they wrote?In our second case study, analyzing sentiment, you will create models that predict a class (positive/negative sentiment) from input feat...
- Week 4 - Clustering and Similarity: Retrieving Documents
A reader is interested in a specific news article and you want to find a similar articles to recommend. What is the right notion of similarity? How do I automatically search over documents to find the one that is most similar? How do I quantitatively repres... - Week 5 - Recommending Products
Ever wonder how Amazon forms its personalized product recommendations? How Netflix suggests movies to watch? How Pandora selects the next song to stream? How Facebook or LinkedIn finds people you might connect with? Underlying all of these technologies for... - Week 6 - Deep Learning: Searching for Images
You’ve probably heard that Deep Learning is making news across the world as one of the most promising techniques in machine learning. Every industry is dedicating resources to unlock the deep learning potential, including for tasks such as image tagging, objec... - Week 6 - Closing Remarks
In the conclusion of the course, we will describe the final stage in turning our machine learning tools into a service: deployment.We will also discuss some open challenges that the field of machine learning still faces, and where we think machine learning ...
Prerequisite
Instructors
Carlos Guestrin
Amazon Professor of Machine Learning
Computer Science and Engineering
Emily Fox
Amazon Professor of Machine Learning
Statistics
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