5 Free Online Machine Learning Courses
Demand for machine learning professionals is growing faster than for any other job. If you are looking to gain the skills needed for that next stage in your career, check out our short list of free online machine learning courses.
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This 5-week class will give you the basic groundwork so that you can understand the concepts associated with machine learning. Topics will include two main methods of machine learning -- regression and classification.
This course includes video lectures and video transcripts in English and is estimated to be a time commitment of about 4 to 6 hours per week. It is part of a professional certificate program, and a verified certificate is available for a fee, although the course without the certificate is offered free of charge.
Prerequisites: Although it's billed as introductory, this course does have two prerequisites. They are Foundations of Data Science: Computational Thinking with Python and Foundations of Data Science: Inferential Thinking by Resampling
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