Professional Certificate: Machine Learning & MLOps Engineering

Master machine learning concepts, algorithms, and real-world applications using Python.

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Course Curriculum

1. Introduction to Machine Learning

  • Definition of ML, AI, and Data Science
  • Types of ML: Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement Learning
  • Applications of ML: healthcare, finance, robotics, recommendation systems
  • Steps in a Machine Learning project
  • Overview of ML tools & libraries: Python, scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy

2. Mathematics for Machine Learning

  • Linear Algebra: vectors, matrices, operations, eigenvalues, eigenvectors
  • Probability & Statistics: probability theory, distributions, Bayes theorem, expectation, variance
  • Calculus: derivatives, gradients, chain rule
  • Optimization: gradient descent, cost/loss functions, convergence

3. Python Programming for ML

  • Python basics: variables, loops, functions, OOP
  • Libraries: NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn
  • Data handling: reading CSV/Excel, missing value handling, data cleaning
  • Data visualization: histograms, scatter plots, boxplots, pairplots

4. Supervised Learning

  • Regression: Linear Regression, Polynomial Regression
  • Classification: Logistic Regression, K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Decision Trees, Random Forest, Support Vector Machines (SVM)
  • Model evaluation metrics: accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, ROC-AUC
  • Overfitting & Underfitting, Bias-Variance tradeoff
  • Cross-validation, train-test split, hyperparameter tuning

5. Unsupervised Learning

  • Clustering: K-Means, Hierarchical Clustering, DBSCAN
  • Dimensionality Reduction: PCA (Principal Component Analysis)
  • Association Rule Learning: Apriori, Eclat algorithms
  • Applications: market segmentation, anomaly detection

6. Feature Engineering & Data Preprocessing

  • Handling missing values
  • Encoding categorical variables (One-hot, Label encoding)
  • Feature scaling: Standardization, Normalization
  • Feature selection & importance
  • Dealing with imbalanced datasets

7. Advanced Supervised Learning

  • Ensemble methods: Bagging, Boosting, AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost
  • Regularization: Ridge, Lasso, Elastic Net
  • Model selection & evaluation techniques
  • Time series forecasting basics

8. Neural Networks & Deep Learning Basics

  • Introduction to Neural Networks: perceptron, multilayer perceptron
  • Activation functions: Sigmoid, ReLU, Tanh
  • Forward propagation & backpropagation
  • Frameworks: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch basics
  • Applications: image recognition, text classification

9. Model Evaluation & Hyperparameter Tuning

  • Confusion matrix and performance metrics
  • Cross-validation strategies
  • Grid Search & Random Search for hyperparameter optimization
  • Bias-variance tradeoff in real-world models

10. Machine Learning Project Workflow

  • Problem definition & data collection
  • Data cleaning & preprocessing
  • Model selection, training & evaluation
  • Deployment basics (Flask, Django, Streamlit)
  • Case studies: predictive analytics, recommendation system, classification projects

11. Specialized Topics (Advanced)

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) basics
  • Image processing & computer vision
  • Reinforcement Learning introduction
  • Unsupervised anomaly detection
  • Transfer learning

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