The University of California, San Diego is offering free online course on Machine Learning for Data Science. In this course, applicants will learn a variety of supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, and the theory behind those algorithms.
The overall objective of this course is to understand machine learning’s role in data-driven modeling, prediction, and decision-making. The course will start on January 3, 2018.
Course At A Glance
Length: 10 weeks
Effort: 8 hours pw
Subject: Data Analysis & Statistics
Institution: University of California, San Diego and edx
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes, Add a Verified Certificate for $350
Session: Course Starts on January 3, 2018
Providers’ Details
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) is a student-centered, research-focused, service-oriented public institution that provides opportunity for all. This young university has made its mark regionally, nationally and internationally. Named in the top 15 research universities worldwide, UC San Diego fosters a culture of collaboration that sparks discoveries, advances society and drives economic impact.
About This Course
Do you want to build systems that learn from experience? Or exploit data to create simple predictive models of the world?
In this course, part of the Data Science MicroMasters program, you will learn a variety of supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, and the theory behind those algorithms.
Using real-world case studies, you will learn how to classify images, identify salient topics in a corpus of documents, partition people according to personality profiles, and automatically capture the semantic structure of words and use it to categorize documents.
Why Take This Course?
Applicants will understand machine learning’s role in data-driven modeling, prediction, and decision-making.
Learning Outcomes
- Classification, regression, and conditional probability estimation
- Generative and discriminative models
- Linear models and extensions to nonlinearity using kernel methods
- Ensemble methods: boosting, bagging, random forestsRepresentation learning: clustering, dimensionality reduction, autoencoders, deep nets
Instructors
Sanjoy Dasgupta
Sanjoy is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1993 and his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2000, both in Computer Science.
Requirements
- The previous courses in the MicroMasters program: DSE200xand DSE210x
- Undergraduate level education in: Multivariate calculus and Linear algebra
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