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Data Science: Building Machine Learning Models

Part of Harvard's Data Science certificate track.

Part of Harvard's data science certificate track, built around a single project: a movie recommendation system, which is one of the most successful applications of the techniques it teaches.

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Data Science: Building Machine Learning Models

Course overview

Learning the method by building the thing works better here than a survey course would.

What you will learn

  • Build a recommendation system end to end
  • Apply regularisation and matrix factorisation to real data
  • Evaluate a model against a baseline that means something
  • Understand where these techniques succeed and where they do not

Who this course is for

Data science students the applied half of the certificate track
Practitioners a complete worked build rather than fragments

Course details

FormatOnline course with a build project
LevelIntermediate
PriceFree
Time40 hours
CertificateYes, on completion

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Harvard University publishes a large share of its computer science and data science teaching openly, through Harvard Online and edX. The CS50 family is its best known series and is free to take, with a paid certificate option.

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