With its ability to provide valuable insights and solve real-world problems – such as cancer detection, self-driving cars, and virtual personal assistants (just to name a few) – machine learning is revolutionizing nearly every industry. Large and small companies alike are increasingly seeking machine learning experts in this area, and with a shortage of trained professionals, it’s an area filled with opportunities.
The Machine Learning Mini-Degree will give you the fundamental skills needed to build the next generation of intelligent applications and software. Using Python, NumPy, TensorFlow, and Keras, you’ll learn by building real projects – including an image identification app, image generator, text generator, and spam detector AI.
The skills you learn will enable you to develop innovative and practical solutions across a wide range of industries.
You will learn:
- Functional arrays and matrices with NumPy
- Building, training, and testing machine learning programs
- Pattern and image recognition
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for image generation
- Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for language modeling
- Deep reinforcement learning
- Naive Bayes for text classification
Curriculum
- Arrays & matrices with NumPy
- Machine learning basics with TensorFlow
- Plotting & graph creation with Matplotlib
- Training linear regression models
- Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
- Image recognition – TensorFlow & Keras
- Handwriting-recognition app
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- Photo-realistic image generation
- Deep reinforcement learning
- Train a neural network to play games
- Q-Learning & Deep Q-Networks
- Text classification with Naive Bayes
- Spam-detector AI
- Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
- Text generation
- Movie reviews classifier app
100% Beginner-Friendly
This curriculum gives you all the tools needed to start building machine learning applications with Python. Whether you’ve never coded before, or are a more experienced developer looking to branch out into a new specialization, this Mini-Degree is designed to help you succeed.
Why Master Machine Learning?
Machine learning has easily become a staple for many companies. Not only is it used to improve core operations, but companies continue to invest even more money into advancing their business using AI technology.
This has made machine learning skills increasingly in demand throughout the industry. It’s seeing incredible job growth, and has the second-highest base salary compared to other similar fields. The entire global market for machine learning software is also increasing in revenue, ensuring that this field is filled with opportunities.