What Does Andrew Ng’s Coursera Machine Learning Course Teach Us?

Tommy
The Startup
Published in
6 min readDec 21, 2020

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You probably have heard a suggestion whether from your friends or just some random people on internet when you are asking what should I do if I want to start to learn Machine Learning or Data Science? Most of them will directly point their finger on Andrew Ng’s Coursera Machine Learning course straight away.

There are several reasons that this is the best suggestion for whoever wanted to start learning Machine Learning. Firstly, it has one of the most compact and high quality machine learning knowledge and skills packed into one course. You are pretty much ready to take on a beginner project in Machine Learning if you have finished this course by yourself since it covers most of the technique that are used in any Machine Learning project that we will discuss in depth in this article.

Secondly, Stanford. Undeniably, love it or hate it, Stanford is one of the leading university in technological field and consistently ranked top 2 in QS ranking year by year. Being taught by the Stanford’s lecturer, Andrew Ng himself will make sure you receive undeniably strong fundamental in Machine Learning. Third and finally, interactive quiz environment. In terms of assessing the skills that you have learned, Coursera will automatically assess your coding ability and giving you feedback if you have made any mistake. This will…

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