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[Discussion] I am following Andrew Ng's Coursera course. Is there an entry course to better follow it? • /r/MachineLearning
I can't offer much in terms of other entry level recommendations, but I can recommend you learn to utilize the resource pages on the coursera course. The way the andrew NG course is set up is that you more or less try to have an idea of how these algorithms work at a conceptual level through the videos, then when you go to programming assignments, you can skip a lot of the prep work and focus on implementing the machine learning algorithms. Now those algorithms might be a little hard to follow at first, which is okay and expected, and that's where the lecture notes and/or wiki come in. From the wiki you can more or less translate the math formulas into code syntax and the assignments are more or less complete. The weeks build off each other so as you learn how to do one part, they do a little less prep work for you so you have to learn how to do another part, and so forth.
Talent crunch makes BMW, McLaren and others look to Udacity for engineers
Today, Udacity announced partnerships with an additional ten companies to help graduates of its new self-driving car nanodegree program find jobs. The program, launched on the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt last month, aims to bring together a large community of students interested in learning, and eventually contributing, to the front lines of autonomous car development. As one of Udacity's nanodegree initiatives, it was designed in conjunction with large corporations with hiring in mind. Previously Udacity had built partnerships with Mercedes-Benz, Nvidia, Otto, and Didi Chuxing. Today however, it is adding BMW,HCL, AutonomouStuff, Elektrobit, HERE, NextEv, Local Motors, McLaren Applied Technologies, Polysync and LeEco to its rosters.
Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning Activity
Mavroforakis, Charalampos, Valera, Isabel, Rodriguez, Manuel Gomez
Learning has become an online activity - people routinely use a wide variety of online learning platforms, ranging from wikis and question answering (Q&A) sites to online communities and blogs, to learn about a large range of topics. In this context, people find solutions to their problems by looking for closely related pieces of information, executing a sequence of queries or, more generally, performing a series of online actions. For example, a high school student may study several closely related wiki pages to prepare an essay about a historical event; a software developer may read several answers within a Q&A site to solve a specific programming problem; and, a researcher may check a specialized blog written by one of her peers to learn about a new concept or technique. All the above are examples of learning patterns, in which people perform a series of online actions - reading a wiki page, an answer, or a blog - to achieve a predefined goal - writing an essay, solving a programming problem, or learning about a new concept or technique. In this context, one may expect that people with similar goals undertake similar sequences of online actions and thus adopt similar learning patterns. Therefore, one could leverage the vast availability of online traces of users' learning activity to disambiguate among interleaved learning patterns adopted by individuals over time, as well as to automatically identify and track those people's interests and goals over time. In this work, we introduce a novel probabilistic model, the Hierarchical Dirichlet Hawkes Process (HDHP), for clustering continuous-time grouped streaming data, which we use to uncover the dynamics of learning activity on the web. The HDHP leverages the properties of the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (HDP) [18], a popular Bayesian nonparametric model for clustering problems involving multiple groups of data, combined with the Hawkes process [13], a temporal point process particularly well fitted to model social activity [11, 19, 20]. In particular, the former is used to account for an infinite number of learning patterns, which are shared across users (groups) of an online learning platform.
Machine Learning in A Year, by Per Harald Borgen - Dataconomy
This is a follow up to an article Per wrote last year, Machine Learning in a Week, on how he kickstarted his way into machine learning (ml) by devoting five days to the subject. Follow him on Medium and check out his archive. My interest in ml stems back to 2014 when I started reading articles about it on Hacker News. I simply found the idea of teaching machines stuff by looking at data appealing. At the time I wasn't even a professional developer, but a hobby coder who'd done a couple of small projects.
Introduction to Machine Learning & Face Detection in Python
This course is about the fundamental concepts of machine learning, focusing on neural networks, SVM and decision trees. These topics are getting very hot nowadays because these learning algorithms can be used in several fields from software engineering to investment banking. Learning algorithms can recognize patterns which can help detect cancer for example or we may construct algorithms that can have a very very good guess about stock prices movement in the market. In each section we will talk about the theoretical background for all of these algorithms then we are going to implement these problems together. The first chapter is about regression: very easy yet very powerful and widely used machine learning technique.
Machine Learning A-Z : Hands-On Python & R In Data Science
My name is Kirill Eremenko and I am super-psyched that you are reading this! I teach courses in two distinct Business areas on Udemy: Data Science and Forex Trading. I want you to be confident that I can deliver the best training there is, so below is some of my background in both these fields. Professionally, I am a Data Science management consultant with over five years of experience in finance, retail, transport and other industries. I was trained by the best analytics mentors at Deloitte Australia and today I leverage Big Data to drive business strategy, revamp customer experience and revolutionize existing operational processes.
Introduction to Machine Learning in R - Udemy
I am from Budapest, Hungary. I am qualified as a physicist and later on I decided to get a master degree in applied mathematics. At the moment I am working as a simulation engineer at a multinational company. I have been interested in algorithms and data structures and its implementations especially in Java since university. Later on I got acquainted with machine learning techniques, artificial intelligence, numerical methods and recipes such as solving differential equations, linear algebra, interpolation and extrapolation.
Machine Learning with Scala - Udemy
The ability to apply machine learning techniques to large datasets is becoming a highly sought-after skill in the world of technology. Scala can help you deliver key insights into your data--its unique capabilities as a language let you build sophisticated algorithms and statistical models. For this reason, machine learning and Scala fit together perfectly and knowledge of both would be beneficial for anyone entering the data science field. The course starts with a general introduction to the Scala programming language. From there, you'll be introduced to several practical machine learning algorithms from the areas of exploratory data analysis.
This Week in Machine Learning, 14 October 2016 – Udacity Inc
Machine Learning is one of the most exciting fields in the world. Every week we discover something new, something amazing, something revolutionary. It's incredible, but it can also be overwhelming. That's why we created This Week in Machine Learning! Each week we publish a curated list of Machine Learning stories as a resource to help you keep pace with all these exciting developments.