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Open Machine Learning Course

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250 pointsmjhough8 comments

Actually, I am surprised to find it here. I've jumped into Data Science with one of the earliest iterations of this course, and can't recommend it enough.

It's just enough to start doing, but compared to other MOOCs it also requires to up your math skills (I've skipped every piece of theory that required a math proof to go further).

But the real gem for me were the homework assignments. 1. Totally doable with just a laptop (no GPUs / tons of memory required). 2. Interesting enough to not quit. 3. Much better than just a questionnaire that you get from other courses.

Thanks for sharing the link! Anyone have any experience as to whether this is more comprehensive than deeplearning.ai? Seems to me that maybe this one should be followed first and maybe followed by deeplearning.ai to focus only on the deep learning part.

I have limited experience with Machine Learning (did the original Andrew Ng MOOC a few years ago) but would like to become a practitioner (actual research in ML would be too advanced for me given my degree).

I heard Python is very on the rise right now. Thank you for sharing, looks interesting if it won't be too hard for me. JavaScript person here.

Python in definitely one of the easier languages to learn if you have some basic programming experience. You will definitely be fine with your background.

I never learned/used Java. I only had some C and Matlab/Octave experience, I was able to pick up Python OK. I am no expert by any means but can do the basics and stuff. I mainly use it for data analysis.

I was a front-end web developer with JavaScript, working with Angular. At my job had the opportunity to start working with the Data Science team and I loved it. Now transitioned to full-time data scientist position, working in Python -- it was an easy transition.

Some things in Python are downright wonderful!

The most popular prebuilt machine learning framework, TensorFlow, has a Python API. This has helped its popularity in the area of data science where it was already big before thanks to iPython (now Jupyter)

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