Machine learning skills are becoming more and more essential in the modern job market. In 2019, Machine Learning Engineer was ranked as the #1 job in the United States, based on the incredible 344% growth of job openings in the field between 2015 to 2018, and the role’s average base salary of $146,085 (Indeed).
This four-course Specialization will help you gain the introductory skills to succeed in an in-demand career in machine learning and data science. After completing this program, you’ll be able to realize the potential of machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence in different business scenarios. You’ll be able to identify when to use machine learning to explain certain behaviors and when to use it to predict future outcomes. You’ll also learn how to evaluate your machine learning models and to incorporate best practices.
By the end of this program, you will have developed concrete machine learning skills to apply in your workplace or career search, as well as a portfolio of projects demonstrating your proficiency. In addition to receiving a certificate from Coursera, you'll also earn an IBM Badge to help you share your accomplishments with your network and potential employer.
You can also leverage the learning from the program to complete the remaining two courses of the six-course IBM Machine Learning Professional Certificate and power a new career in the field of machine learning.
Overview
Syllabus
Course 1: Exploratory Data Analysis for Machine Learning
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Course 2: Supervised Machine Learning: Regression
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Course 3: Supervised Machine Learning: Classification
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Course 4: Unsupervised Machine Learning
- Offered by IBM. This course introduces you to one of the main types of Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning. You will learn how to find ... Enroll for free.
- Offered by IBM. This first course in the IBM Machine Learning Professional Certificate introduces you to Machine Learning and the content of ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Supervised Machine Learning: Regression
- Offered by IBM. This course introduces you to one of the main types of modelling families of supervised Machine Learning: Regression. You ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Supervised Machine Learning: Classification
- Offered by IBM. This course introduces you to one of the main types of modeling families of supervised Machine Learning: Classification. You ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Unsupervised Machine Learning
- Offered by IBM. This course introduces you to one of the main types of Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning. You will learn how to find ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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This course introduces you to one of the main types of Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning. You will learn how to find insights from data sets that do not have a target or labeled variable. You will learn several clustering and dimension reduction algorithms for unsupervised learning as well as how to select the algorithm that best suits your data. The hands-on section of this course focuses on using best practices for unsupervised learning.
By the end of this course you should be able to:
Explain the kinds of problems suitable for Unsupervised Learning approaches
Explain the curse of dimensionality, and how it makes clustering difficult with many features
Describe and use common clustering and dimensionality-reduction algorithms
Try clustering points where appropriate, compare the performance of per-cluster models
Understand metrics relevant for characterizing clusters
Who should take this course?
This course targets aspiring data scientists interested in acquiring hands-on experience with Unsupervised Machine Learning techniques in a business setting.
What skills should you have?
To make the most out of this course, you should have familiarity with programming on a Python development environment, as well as fundamental understanding of Data Cleaning, Exploratory Data Analysis, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics. -
This course introduces you to one of the main types of modeling families of supervised Machine Learning: Classification. You will learn how to train predictive models to classify categorical outcomes and how to use error metrics to compare across different models. The hands-on section of this course focuses on using best practices for classification, including train and test splits, and handling data sets with unbalanced classes.
By the end of this course you should be able to:
-Differentiate uses and applications of classification and classification ensembles
-Describe and use logistic regression models
-Describe and use decision tree and tree-ensemble models
-Describe and use other ensemble methods for classification
-Use a variety of error metrics to compare and select the classification model that best suits your data
-Use oversampling and undersampling as techniques to handle unbalanced classes in a data set
Who should take this course?
This course targets aspiring data scientists interested in acquiring hands-on experience with Supervised Machine Learning Classification techniques in a business setting.
What skills should you have?
To make the most out of this course, you should have familiarity with programming on a Python development environment, as well as fundamental understanding of Data Cleaning, Exploratory Data Analysis, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics. -
This course introduces you to one of the main types of modelling families of supervised Machine Learning: Regression. You will learn how to train regression models to predict continuous outcomes and how to use error metrics to compare across different models. This course also walks you through best practices, including train and test splits, and regularization techniques.
By the end of this course you should be able to:
Differentiate uses and applications of classification and regression in the context of supervised machine learning
Describe and use linear regression models
Use a variety of error metrics to compare and select a linear regression model that best suits your data
Articulate why regularization may help prevent overfitting
Use regularization regressions: Ridge, LASSO, and Elastic net
Who should take this course?
This course targets aspiring data scientists interested in acquiring hands-on experience with Supervised Machine Learning Regression techniques in a business setting.
What skills should you have?
To make the most out of this course, you should have familiarity with programming on a Python development environment, as well as fundamental understanding of Data Cleaning, Exploratory Data Analysis, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics. -
This first course in the IBM Machine Learning Professional Certificate introduces you to Machine Learning and the content of the professional certificate. In this course you will realize the importance of good, quality data. You will learn common techniques to retrieve your data, clean it, apply feature engineering, and have it ready for preliminary analysis and hypothesis testing.
By the end of this course you should be able to:
Retrieve data from multiple data sources: SQL, NoSQL databases, APIs, Cloud
Describe and use common feature selection and feature engineering techniques
Handle categorical and ordinal features, as well as missing values
Use a variety of techniques for detecting and dealing with outliers
Articulate why feature scaling is important and use a variety of scaling techniques
Who should take this course?
This course targets aspiring data scientists interested in acquiring hands-on experience with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in a business setting.
What skills should you have?
To make the most out of this course, you should have familiarity with programming on a Python development environment, as well as fundamental understanding of Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics.
Taught by
Mark J Grover and Miguel Maldonado
