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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

AE

Sep 26, 2021

Very detailed course of Exploratory Data Analysis for Machine learning. Ready to take the next step in data science or Machine learning, this is great course for taking you to the next level.

ML

Sep 21, 2021

Excellent, very detailed. However, if the lessons can be expand for hypothesis testing and some of their common test like T test, Anova 1 and 2 way, chi square,..it would be better further.

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By Hossam G M

May 27, 2021

The course material should be provided to allow better absorption of the large amount of information presented. some of the topics needs to be discussed further with more examples and concept declaration especially the hypothesis testing section.

By Ashwin R A R

Jun 21, 2023

The videos seem to be outdated. The material is honestly not that engaging. For a beginners course this might be good. Different people have different tastes. The content itself is pretty good I'd say.

By Ivan P

Sep 15, 2022

Non-working labs, a few incorrect sentences, some things are not explained well enough (At least I feel so), at least one duplicated video - it's not bad, but sloppy.

By Alexander S

Jul 14, 2023

Too much focus on "feature engineering", which is high-school level math on the columns. Better if more focus on the statistical concepts and theoretical backgroud.

By Gabriel Y H M

Feb 25, 2021

I liked the course content but I would like a more interactive approach that show us how to do hypothesis testing in python. The teacher just reads the courses.

By Azmine T W

Apr 16, 2022

I think, instructor went too fast in many cases. Some topics needs to be restructured with more real life examples and interpretations.

By Alexander D

Aug 7, 2022

Exam questions are phrased very poorly in a lot of cases and often don't do a good job of assessing what was taught.

By John C B

Jan 3, 2023

Quizzes are too easy and pretty insipid. The course isn't terrible, but it's not something to spend money on.

By Obinna N

Oct 27, 2023

The instructor was not explanatory enough. I suggest that it should be more of teaching than lecturing.

By Simon N

Apr 19, 2021

I do like the course in generall. But some slides, are very text heavy, which i do not prefer.

By Naveen G

Aug 25, 2022

Content is good but teaching can me more better.

So next time please hire a good teacher.

By Busola A

Mar 29, 2022

The videos are not well explanatory enough.

By Rakesh M

Mar 12, 2023

Items not properly explained

By Raed A A

Jun 29, 2024

it is to long!!

By Upendra J

Dec 3, 2022

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By Sam R S E

Jan 16, 2024

good

By Pavani P

Dec 6, 2023

good

By Max M

Sep 7, 2023

One of the most significant drawbacks of the course was the instructor's reliance on slides as a reading tool rather than a teaching aid. The slides presented the information in a rather static and passive manner, which made it difficult for me , to engage with the material effectively. Instead of actively demonstrating the application of formulas and concepts, the instructor merely read the text on the screen, leaving us to decipher the practical aspects on our own.

This approach posed several challenges. First and foremost, it hindered our understanding of the material. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is a hands-on process that requires practical application, and it's crucial to see how formulas and concepts are applied in real-world scenarios. Unfortunately, the course did not provide sufficient guidance in this regard.

Moreover, this teaching method made it challenging to maintain focus and engagement throughout the course. It's difficult to stay engaged when the instructor's presentation primarily consists of reading text from slides. It would have been much more effective if the instructor had actively demonstrated how to use the formulas and provided examples that allowed us to see EDA in action.

To enhance the course and improve the learning experience, I would strongly recommend that the instructor adopt a more interactive and practical approach. This could involve incorporating hands-on exercises, real-world case studies, or live demonstrations of EDA techniques. Providing opportunities for students to actively apply what they've learned would undoubtedly lead to a more engaging and effective learning experience.

By Oleg O

Mar 25, 2022

This course is too surface. You must have a solid background in statistics and be familiar with pandas/numpy python libraries, otherwise you will spend a lot of time just to learn these libs. Also there is some basic info in lectures but assignments contain much complex and harder tasks which were not discussed in the lecture. And the tasks already have answers , so there are questions and solutions in one place, it is very weird and annoying

By Chris R

Apr 15, 2023

Note enough exercisese. In fact there really were almost no exercises, except in the Honors section (the optional 5th week - a peer reviewed project).

Lectures were too fast and not always clear. Ambiguous language was frequently used. I believe the instructor does know the subject, but there is too much glossing over. Going to look for a better class with more exercises and clearer definitions.

By Stephen C

Jan 3, 2022

Frankly, the presenter is a poor educator and the course materials are weak. The examples are limited, some explanations verge on incorrect (description of p-values), and several of the graded test questions are ambiguous and encourage rote learning of the teacher's preference/positions, rather than testing the underlying concepts. I expect better from IBM.

By Mpho M

Dec 1, 2020

Course videos are way too long.

No Jupyter support, so for the coding exercise one has to download the notebooks and either use Google Colab or locally installed Jupyter notebook.

By Sayan M

Feb 25, 2023

The explanation from mentor in this course was not that great. It felt like he was just reading some lines from an script, rather than explaining in simple terms.

By Walter B

Jun 14, 2021

The course starts well. Then it goes to statistics and not so much to machine learning. The assignment is not so geared towards machine learning.

By Agban o

Sep 1, 2023

the lecture seemed difficult to follow. i wish things where better explained. had to go back and take some other courses to enable me catch up