Lesson 1
Welcome to Machine Learning
Welcome to the Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree program! Learn about the program structure and the projects you'll work on in this program.
Nanodegree Program
The Introduction to Machine Learning with TensorFlow program covers supervised and unsupervised learning methods for machine learning. Course 1 introduces regression, perceptron algorithms, decision trees, naive Bayes, support vector machines, and evaluation metrics. Course 2 focuses on neural networks and creating an image classifier. Course 3 covers unsupervised learning methods, including clustering and dimensionality reduction for customer segmentation. Key skills include data preprocessing, model selection, and evaluation using TensorFlow and Python.
The Introduction to Machine Learning with TensorFlow program covers supervised and unsupervised learning methods for machine learning. Course 1 introduces regression, perceptron algorithms, decision trees, naive Bayes, support vector machines, and evaluation metrics. Course 2 focuses on neural networks and creating an image classifier. Course 3 covers unsupervised learning methods, including clustering and dimensionality reduction for customer segmentation. Key skills include data preprocessing, model selection, and evaluation using TensorFlow and Python.
Intermediate
2 months
Real-world Projects
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Last Updated October 1, 2024
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Course 1 • 1 hour
Lesson 1
Welcome to the Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree program! Learn about the program structure and the projects you'll work on in this program.
Lesson 2
What to do if you have questions about your account or general questions about the program.
Lesson 3
In this lesson, get your computer set up with Python 3 using Anaconda, as well as setting up a text editor.
Course 2 • 3 weeks
In this course, you'll learn about different types of supervised learning and how to use them to solve real-world problems.
Lesson 1
Before diving into the many algorithms of machine learning, it is important to take a step back and understand the big picture associated with the entire field.
Lesson 2
Linear regression is one of the most fundamental algorithms in machine learning. In this lesson, learn how linear regression works!
Lesson 3
The perceptron algorithm is an algorithm for classifying data. It is the building block of neural networks.
Lesson 4
Decision trees are a structure for decision-making where each decision leads to a set of consequences or additional decisions.
Lesson 5
Naive Bayesian Algorithms are powerful tools for creating classifiers for incoming labeled data. Specifically Naive Bayes is frequently used with text data and classification problems.
Lesson 6
Support vector machines are a common method used for classification problems. They have been proven effective using what is known as the 'kernel' trick!
Lesson 7
Bagging and boosting are two common ensemble methods for combining simple algorithms to make more advanced models that work better than the simple algorithms would on their own.
Lesson 8
Learn the main metrics to evaluate models, such as accuracy, precision, recall, and more!
Lesson 9
Learn the main types of errors that can occur during training, and several methods to deal with them and optimize your machine learning models.
Lesson 10 • Project
You've covered a wide variety of methods for performing supervised learning -- now it's time to put those into action!
Course 3 • 3 weeks
Learn the fundamentals of neural networks with Python and TensorFlow, and then use your new skills to create your own image classifier—an application that will first train a deep learning model on a dataset of images and then use the trained model to classify new images.
Lesson 1
Meet your instructors, get a short overview of what you'll be learning, check your prerequisites, and learn how to use the workspaces and notebooks found throughout the lessons.
Lesson 2
In this lesson, Luis will give you solid foundations on deep learning and neural networks. You'll also implement gradient descent and backpropagation in Python right here in the classroom.
Lesson 3
Mat will introduce you to a different error function and guide you through implementing gradient descent using numpy matrix multiplication.
Lesson 4
Now that you know what neural networks are, in this lesson you will learn several techniques to improve their training.
Lesson 5
Learn how to use TensorFlow for building deep learning models.
Lesson 6 • Project
In this project, you'll build a Python application that can train an image classifier on a dataset, then predict new images using the trained model.
Course 4 • 3 weeks
In this course, you'll learn how to apply unsupervised learning to solve real-world problems.
Lesson 1
Clustering is one of the most common methods of unsupervised learning. Here, we'll discuss the K-means clustering algorithm.
Lesson 2
We continue to look at clustering methods. Here, we'll discuss hierarchical clustering and density-based clustering (DBSCAN).
Lesson 3
In this lesson, we discuss Gaussian mixture model clustering. We then talk about the cluster analysis process and how to validate clustering results.
Lesson 4
Often we need to reduce a large number of features in our data to a smaller, more relevant set. Principal Component Analysis, or PCA, is a method of feature extraction and dimensionality reduction.
Lesson 5
In this lesson, we will look at two other methods for feature extraction and dimensionality reduction: Random Projection and Independent Component Analysis (ICA).
Lesson 6 • Project
In this project, you'll apply your unsupervised learning skills to two demographics datasets, to identify segments and clusters in the population, and see how customers of a company map to them.
Staff Data Scientist
Josh has been sharing his passion for data for over a decade. He's used data science for work ranging from cancer research to process automation. He recently has found a passion for solving data science problems within marketplace companies.
Instructor
After beginning his career in business, Michael utilized Udacity Nanodegree programs to build his technical skills, eventually becoming a Self-Driving Car Engineer at Udacity before switching roles to work on curriculum development for a variety of AI and Autonomous Systems programs.
Content Developer
Mat is a former physicist, research neuroscientist, and data scientist. He did his PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley.
Instructor
Andrew has an engineering degree from Yale, and has used his data science skills to build a jewelry business from the ground up. He has additionally created courses for Udacity's Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree program.
Instructor
Jennifer has a PhD in Computer Science and a Masters in Biostatistics; she was a professor at Florida Polytechnic University. She previously worked at RTI International and United Therapeutics as a statistician and computer scientist.
Instructor
Dan leads Amazon AI's Business Development efforts for Machine Learning Services. Day to day, he works with customers—from startups to enterprises—to ensure they are successful at building and deploying models on Amazon SageMaker.
Curriculum Lead
Cezanne is an expert in computer vision with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. As a former researcher in genomics and biomedical imaging, she's applied computer vision and deep learning to medical diagnostic applications.
Instructor
Sean Carrell is a former research mathematician specializing in Algebraic Combinatorics. He completed his PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Instructor
Jay is a software engineer, the founder of Qaym (an Arabic-language review site), and the Investment Principal at STV, a $500 million venture capital fund focused on high-technology startups.
Instructor
Luis was formerly a Machine Learning Engineer at Google. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Quebec at Montreal.
Content Developer
Juan is a computational physicist with a Masters in Astronomy. He is finishing his PhD in Biophysics. He previously worked at NASA developing space instruments and writing software to analyze large amounts of scientific data using machine learning techniques.
Average Rating: 4.8 Stars
256 Reviews
Shaohua W.
September 19, 2022
not bad,very intuition
kazuma s.
August 16, 2022
It was good to examine the strengths and weaknesses of each model. It would have been better if the lecture could have shown when each model is best to be used.
Ian C.
July 9, 2022
Great program.
Gishe T.
July 9, 2022
Good project with different machine learning algorithms to explore with tradeoff.
Ond≈ôej S.
March 28, 2022
It was really good project to get new experience
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