I actually did take a data mining course a couple years ago in uni, and also at the time I was following Andrew Ng's course. TBH, I learn better by working on a project. Otherwise I lose interest midway.
If a course is of interest, we will be launching a deep learning course shortly that would help bridge the gaps. Stay tuned. I am a Microsoft employee.
Will this be based on Azure notebooks or otherwise cloud based + free?
We are working through the details. It will follow the standard MOOC like Coursera, Edx, Udacity. You should be able to use the Azure Notebook (that is the goal) but there may be small caveats. Stay tuned as we work through the details.
This sounds awesome, thankyou for doing this! Is there anywhere I can give my email to get updates/a date I can put a reminder in my calendar to check this out?