Machine LearningBeginner

Machine Learning Foundations

The core ideas behind models that learn from data.

Taught by Bibek Sharma · Data Scientist

What you'll learn

  • Tell supervised from unsupervised learning
  • Explain why we split data into train/validation/test
  • Read a loss curve and spot over/underfitting
  • Describe linear models and decision trees
  • Avoid the most common data-leakage mistakes

About this course

Before frameworks and buzzwords, machine learning is a few powerful ideas: learn a pattern from examples, measure how wrong you are, and improve. This free course builds that intuition in plain language, with just enough maths to be dangerous.

Course content

5 lessons
  1. 1Learning from examplesWhat 'learning' means for a machine.Preview
  2. 2Why we split the dataTrain, validation, and test sets.Preview
  3. 3Loss, overfitting, underfittingReading the story a loss curve tells.
  4. 4Two models you should knowLinear models and decision trees.
  5. 5Mistakes that quietly ruin modelsData leakage and friends.