Machine Learning for Beginners to Advanced

This course will get you started in building your Machine learning Expert for beginners to learn Machine learning algorithms. Following my previous course on Python Machine Learning, we take this basic building block and build full-on machine learning basics right out of the gate using Python and python modules. All the materials for this course are FREE.

Before starting, first, we provides basic lecturers on python basics: Environment setup of python, Setting up machine learning environment (python), Jupiter notebook, anaconda, other local environments, Arithmetic operators in Python: Python, Strings in Python: Python Basics, Lists, Tuples, and Dictionaries: Python Basics, working with Numpy, working with pandas, working with matplotlib, overview of sklearn, overview of different ML models and Data collection.

You should take this course if you are interested in starting your journey toward becoming a master at machine learning, or if you are interested in machine learning and data science in general. We go beyond basic models like logistic regression and linear regression and I show you something that automatically learns features.

This course provides you with many practical examples so that you can really see how machine learning can be used on anything. Throughout the course, we'll do a course project, which will show you how to predict user actions on a website given user data like whether or not that user is on a mobile device, the number of products they viewed, how long they stayed on your site, whether or not they are a returning visitor, and what time of day they visited.

Another project at the end of the course shows you how you can use deep learning for facial expression recognition. Imagine being able to predict someone's emotions just based on a picture!

After getting your feet wet with the fundamentals, I provide a brief overview of some of the newest developments in neural networks - slightly modified architectures and what they are used for.

 

NOTE:

If you already know about softmax and backpropagation, and you want to skip over the theory and speed things up using more advanced techniques along with TPU and GPU-optimization, check out my follow-up course on this topic, Machine Learning: Practical Machine Learning basics.

I have other courses that cover more advanced topics, such as Convolutional Neural Networks, Restricted Boltzmann Machines, Autoencoders, and more! But you want to be very comfortable with the material in this course before moving on to more advanced subjects.

This course focuses on "how to build and understand", not just "how to use". Anyone can learn to use an API in 15 minutes after reading some documentation. It's not about "remembering facts", it's about "seeing for yourself" via experimentation. It will teach you how to visualize what's happening in the model internally. If you want more than just a superficial look at machine learning models, this course is for you.

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Suggested Prerequisites:

• calculus (taking derivatives)

• matrix arithmetic

• probability

• statistics

• Python coding: if/else, loops, lists, dicts, sets

• Numpy coding: matrix and vector operations, loading a CSV file

• Be familiar with basic linear models such as linear regression and logistic regression

 

TIPS (for getting through the course):

• Watch it at 2x.

• Take handwritten notes. This will drastically increase your ability to retain the information.

• Write down the equations. If you don't, I guarantee it will just look like gibberish.

• Ask lots of questions on the discussion board. The more the better!

• Realize that most exercises will take you days or weeks to complete.

• Write code yourself, don't just sit there and look at my code.

 

WHAT ORDER SHOULD I TAKE YOUR COURSES IN?:

• Check out the lecture "What order should I take your courses in?" (available in the Appendix of any of my courses, including the free Numpy course)

 

Who this course is for:

• Students interested in machine learning - you'll get all the tidbits you need to do well in this course

• Professionals who want to use algorithms in their machine learning and data science pipeline. Be able to apply more powerful models, and know its drawbacks.