Acquire the fundamental machine learning expertise you need to immediately implement new strategies for driving value in your organization. This foundational course covers essential concepts and methods in machine learning, providing the basic building blocks required to solve real tasks. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of learning algorithms, and assess which types of methods are likely to be useful for a given class of problems.
This course may be taken individually or as part of the Professional Certificate Program in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence.
Machine learning is a rapidly expanding area with a diverse collection of tools and approaches. Successfully applying such methods to real tasks may seem to require expertise that many do not possess. However, all these methods share the same basic concepts, use the same building blocks.
Understanding these basics, formulations, and when they are appropriate, is key to using machine learning techniques successfully in practice. This foundational course covers the essential concepts and methods in machine learning, providing participants with an entry level expertise they need to get started and quickly move ahead.
Certificate of Completion from MIT Professional Education
