AI offers businesses valuable insights into customer behavior trends and operational patterns, helping them develop new products. Today, many leading companies leverage AI fields like machine learning to enhance their operations. By the end of this specialization at the British Academy For Training And Development, participants will have mastered key concepts and acquired practical skills to effectively apply machine learning to tackle complex real-world challenges. For those aiming to enter the AI field or build a career in machine learning, this new Machine Learning Specialization is the perfect starting point.

Who should attend? 

• Software Engineers
• Enthusiasts about AI

Knowledge and Benefits:

After completing the program, participants will be able to master the following:

• have a broad understanding of machine learning, its concepts, and its methods.
• Implementing fundamental machine learning algorithms such as back propagation and k-means clustering.
• Tackling tasks such as multi-class classification and anomaly detection.
• The ability to use Octave and Matlab to complete practical projects involving optical character recognition using a wide variety of approaches.
• Get real-world experience on how to implement AI in the field of your work.

• Introduction to Machine Learning
  • Applications of machine learning
  • What is machine learning?
  • Supervised learning
  • Unsupervised learning
  • Jupyter Notebooks
  • Linear regression model
  • Cost function formula
  • Cost function intuition
  • Visualizing the cost function
  • Visualization examples
  • Gradient descent
  • Implementing gradient descent
  • Gradient descent intuition
  • Learning rate
  • Gradient descent for linear regression
  • Running gradient descent

• Regression with multiple input variables
  • Multiple features
  • Vectorization
  • Gradient descent for multiple linear regression
  • Feature scaling
  • Checking gradient descent for convergence
  • Choosing the learning rate
  • Feature engineering
  • Polynomial regression

• Classification
  • Logistic regression
  • Decision boundary1
  • Cost function for logistic regression
  • Simplified Cost Function for Logistic Regression
  • Gradient Descent Implementation
  • The problem of overfitting
  • Addressing overfitting
  • Cost function with regularization
  • Regularized linear regression
  • Regularized logistic regression