The BEST Machine Learning course for beginners and practitioners alike

Introduction

The aim of this article is to review Andrew Ng’s revamped Machine Learning Specialization on Coursera. I did a lot of MOOCs and online trainings and DeepLearning.ai’s Specialization clearly stands out as the best resource out there, whether you are getting started or you got some practical experience. This training has a a good balance between theory and practice. You’ll be able to develop intuition and dive deep about the internals of famous Machine Learning models such as Linear and Logistic regression, Neural Networks, XGBoost, Random Forest etc … while solving practical problems by implementing some of the latter.

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A bit of history

Andrew Ng created the first version of this course back in late 2011. It rapidly became the world’s most popular online course with a number of learners totalling 4.8M so far. Its outstanding popularity prompted Prof. Ng to Co-found Coursera in early 2012.

The course is very academic, trying to mirror its on-campus counterpart. The course didn’t shy away from the math that underpins machine learning models…