Data Science vs. Machine Learning: What’s the Difference?
April 4, 2024
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Understand the theory and intuition behind artificial neural networks
Build, train and test an artificial neural network model in Keras and Tensorflow
Perform data cleaning, feature engineering and visualization
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In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to predict medical insurance cost with machine learning. The objective of this case study is to predict the health insurance cost incurred by Individuals based on their age, gender, Body Mass Index (BMI), number of children, smoking habits, and geo-location.
Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Understand the Problem Statement
Import Libraries and Datasets
Perform Exploratory Data Analysis
Practice Opportunity #1 [Optional]
Perform Feature Engineering
Perform Data Visualization
Practice Opportunity #2 [Optional]
Create Training and Testing Datasets
Practice Opportunity #3 [Optional]
Train and Evaluate a Linear Regression Model in Sk-Learn
Train and Evaluate an Artificial Neural Network Regression Model
Practice Opportunity #4 [Optional]
Basic python programming and Machine Learning Knowledge
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The instructor was phenomenal and the course material was reasonably easy to follow. It took me a little while to get all the accurate answers, but it was worthy! I learned so much!
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