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Udacity

Model Building and Validation

AT&T via Udacity

Overview

This course will teach you how to start from scratch in answering questions about the real world using data. Machine learning happens to be a small part of this process. The model building process involves setting up ways of collecting data, understanding and paying attention to what is important in the data to answer the questions you are asking, finding a statistical, mathematical or a simulation model to gain understanding and make predictions.

All of these things are equally important and model building is a crucial skill to acquire in every field of science. The process stays true to the scientific method, making what you learn through your models useful for gaining an understanding of whatever you are investigating as well as make predictions that hold true to test.

We will take you on a journey through building various models. This process involves asking questions, gathering and manipulating data, building models, and ultimately testing and evaluating them.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to the QMV Process
    • Learn about the Question, Modeling, and Validation (QMV) process of data analysis.,Understand the basics behind each step.,Apply the QMV process to analyze on how Udacity employees choose candies!
  • Question Phase
    • Learn how to turn a vague question into a statistical one that can be analyzed with statistics and machine learning.,Analyze a Twitter dataset and try to predict when a person will tweet next!
  • Modeling Phase
    • Build rigorous mathematical, statistical, and machine learning models to make accurate predictions.,Look through the recently released U.S. medicare dataset for anomalous transactions.
  • Validation Phase
    • Learn fundamental metrics to grade the performance of your models.,Analyze the AT&T connected cars data set.,See if you can tell the drivers apart by analyzing their driving patterns.
  • Identify Hacking Attempts from Network Flow Logs
    • Create a program that examines log data and scores the likelihood that a brute force attack is taking place on a server.

Taught by

Rishi Pravahan and Don Dini

Reviews

2.0 rating, based on 6 Class Central reviews

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  • Anonymous
    The content of this course sometimes is completely inaccurate from the standpoint of probability theory and statistics. In the second lesson the instructor does some very strange curve fitting to get maximum likelihood estimates for the parameters of something he believes to be probability density function. IMHO, nor his fitting attempts had anything to do with maximum likelihood, neither (by the end of the lesson) the fitted curve estimated any kind of probability density function.
  • Model Building and Validation is an advanced data science course provided by AT&T through the Udacity MOOC platform. The course is listed as "advanced" because it assumes prior knowledge of machine learning, statistics, linear algebra and calculus.…
  • Anonymous
    Don Dini seems to be completely clueless in what he does. For example, when in the end of the second lesson he estimates model with k-nearest neighbours, he modifies the problem in a very strange way and generates almost 1.5 million. new datapoints from initial population of several thousand observations . These new datapoints differ from initial only slightly. So KNN works equally great on the test and on the training set, because Don randomly splits them only after generating 1.5 million almost identical datapoints. So it is a kind of regressing sin(x) on cos(x), only somewhat more obscure.
  • Anonymous
    Dont bother. this course is really more about the authors demoing what they can do rather then actually explaining or teaching anything. very little value for the time invested. you'l find better material for this subject on coursera.
  • Rafael Prados

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