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How to become a software engineer: A complete guide

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If you have a passion for computers and coding, perhaps you've wondered how to become a software engineer. The BLS reports that software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers positions will see 22% employment growth from 2020-30. Even more good news: This high-responsibility role is more attainable than you may think. A software engineer designs, builds, and maintains computer applications. They may oversee a team of software developers writing code.


Python for Machine Learning

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This book was designed around major building blocks of the Python ecosystem that are useful to machine learning projects. There are a lot of things you could learn about Python, from language mechanics to the various libraries. Our goal is to take you straight to developing an intuition for the elements you can use in Python projects with laser-focused tutorials. We designed the tutorials to focus on how to get things done with Python. They give you the tools to both rapidly understand and apply each technique or operation. Each tutorial is designed to take you about one hour to read through and complete, excluding the extensions and further reading. You can choose to work through the lessons one per day, one per week, or at your own pace. I think momentum is critically important, and this book is intended to be read and used, not to sit idle. I would recommend picking a schedule and sticking to it.


How Predictive Sales Analytics Works and Why It Matters

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The technology behind this is called "predictive analytics" or, in sales terms, "predictive sales analytics". In this article, you will learn how you can tell whether your company needs an ERP system with AI to predict customer behaviour. We will also discuss the advantages of using this technology, how it works, and what is needed for it to work. Predictive sales analytics is a specialized field that aims to make sales forecasts as precisely as possible. Various statistical and mathematical methods are available for this purpose.


25 Best edX Courses for Data Science and Machine Learning

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The course material of this course is available freely. But for the certificate, you have to pay. In this course, you will learn the foundational TensorFlow concepts such as the main functions, operations, and execution pipelines. This course will also teach how to use TensorFlow in curve fitting, regression, classification, and minimization of error functions. You will understand different types of Deep Architectures, such as Convolutional Networks, Recurrent Networks, and Autoencoders.


How AI makes developers' lives easier, and helps everybody learn to develop software

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Ever since Ada Lovelace, a polymath often considered the first computer programmer, proposed in 1843 using holes punched into cards to solve mathematical equations on a never-built mechanical computer, software developers have been translating their solutions to problems into step-by-step instructions that computers can understand. Today, AI-powered software development tools are allowing people to build software solutions using the same language that they use when they talk to other people. These AI-powered tools translate natural language into the programming languages that computers understand. "That allows you, as a developer, to have an intent to accomplish something in your head that you can express in natural language and this technology translates it into code that achieves the intent you have," Scott said. "That's a fundamentally different way of thinking about development than we've had since the beginning of software."


Machine Learning with Javascript

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If you're here, you already know the truth: Machine Learning is the future of everything. In the coming years, there won't be a single industry in the world untouched by Machine Learning. A transformative force, you can either choose to understand it now, or lose out on a wave of incredible change. You probably already use apps many times each day that rely upon Machine Learning techniques. So why stay in the dark any longer?


3 Strategies To Redefine Your Executive Career Path With AI

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is disrupting businesses and job roles in every industry, causing concerns about long-term job security for low-skill manual jobs and management roles alike. To prepare for this AI-driven economy, many experienced managers and seasoned executives are turning to MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) to upskill in foundational data analytics and AI. This trend is unlikely to slow down anytime soon: The global MOOC market is expected to grow from $3.9 billion in 2018 to $20.8 billion by 2023, a CAGR of 40.1 percent. Business and technology-related courses make up 40 percent of these online courses. Many universities have also joined the drive to fill the AI leadership gap by offering high-touch executive education programs.


Machine Learning for Accounting with Python

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This course, Machine Learning for Accounting with Python, introduces machine learning algorithms (models) and their applications in accounting problems. It covers classification, regression, clustering, text analysis, time series analysis. This course provides an entry point for students to be able to apply proper machine learning models on business related datasets with Python to solve various problems. Accounting Data Analytics with Python is a prerequisite for this course. This course is running on the same platform (Jupyter Notebook) as that of the prerequisite course.


Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Finance

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This course aims at providing an introductory and broad overview of the field of ML with the focus on applications on Finance. Supervised Machine Learning methods are used in the capstone project to predict bank closures. Simultaneously, while this course can be taken as a separate course, it serves as a preview of topics that are covered in more details in subsequent modules of the specialization Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Finance. The goal of Guided Tour of Machine Learning in Finance is to get a sense of what Machine Learning is, what it is for and in how many different financial problems it can be applied to. The course is designed for three categories of students: Practitioners working at financial institutions such as banks, asset management firms or hedge funds Individuals interested in applications of ML for personal day trading Current full-time students pursuing a degree in Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or other related disciplines who want to learn about practical applications of ML in Finance Experience with Python (including numpy, pandas, and IPython/Jupyter notebooks), linear algebra, basic probability theory and basic calculus is necessary to complete assignments in this course.


Developing AI Applications on Azure

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This course introduces the concepts of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning. We'll discuss machine learning types and tasks, and machine learning algorithms. You'll explore Python as a popular programming language for machine learning solutions, including using some scientific ecosystem packages which will help you implement machine learning. Next, this course introduces the machine learning tools available in Microsoft Azure. We'll review standardized approaches to data analytics and you'll receive specific guidance on Microsoft's Team Data Science Approach.