
Learn how Python, a high-level and open-source language with simple syntax, powers web development, data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, backed by a large community and rich resources.
Install python from python.org, add to path, and verify with the command prompt; then install pandas with pip and run a simple hello world in idle or shell.
Download and install the Anaconda distribution and Navigator, set up Jupyter Notebook, and learn to run basic code and install libraries needed for machine learning and data science.
Install pandas, numpy, matplotlib, and cycle lane via Anaconda Navigator or pip. Open a Jupyter notebook, rename it, and run cells while refreshing the kernel as needed.
Explore Python data types including integers, floats, complex numbers, strings, booleans, and collections like lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries, with practical examples.
Learn how python handles arithmetic operators, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and modulo, plus assignment and comparison operators, with if statements and practical examples.
Learn to use Python's input function to collect user data and work with strings. Apply string methods and convert inputs to float for simple calculations like deposits or salary.
Explore how to use Python's datetime module to work with dates and times for machine learning, including importing the module, creating today's date, storing and formatting dates with strftime.
Learn to create and use Python functions to modularize code, with examples of defining, returning values, using docstrings, and handling global and local variables.
Learn how tuples are ordered, immutable collections created with brackets or the tuple keyword. Access elements by index or slice, and pack and unpack while handling immutability with try/except.
Apply the count method to reveal element frequency, use length and index to inspect size and positions, and sort by converting to a list, using sorted, then back to a tuple.
Explore Python sets, create sets from curly braces or lists and tuples, manage elements with add, remove, and discard, and learn intersection, union, and error handling.
Explore core set operations—union, intersection, difference, and symmetric difference—using odd and prime numbers, demonstrated through Python code and Venn diagram concepts for machine learning and artificial intelligence development.
Develop a Python script that uses sets to compare two movie interest lists, computes common movies with intersection, differences with difference, and uses union for overall suggestions.
Learn how to create and manipulate Python arrays using the array module. Import the array function, build an array of integers, and print its contents.
Master Python queues by studying fifo and lifo concepts, using list, queue module, and deque to append, put, and get elements, and apply them to processing tasks and scheduling jobs.
Explore vectors and vector operations, including magnitude, direction, and coordinate representations in two dimensional and three dimensional. Explore addition, subtraction, dot products, angles, and linear combinations with Python examples.
Explore matrices as multi-dimensional arrays central to machine learning and artificial intelligence, including neural networks and input data X, covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, and scalar multiplication with numpy in Python.
Learn how linear transformations map vectors to new coordinates using a matrix, with examples of translation, rotation, reflection, and enlargement on 2d and 3d vectors.
Learn how eigenvalues and eigenvectors reveal how a matrix scales vectors under a linear transformation, solving via determinant and characteristic polynomial, with practical Python examples.
Explains the singular value decomposition (SVD), showing how a matrix factors into U, Sigma, and V^T, and highlights its use in data compression, image processing, and recommendations.
Discover principal component analysis for dimensionality reduction and data visualization, identifying orthogonal eigenvectors that capture maximum variance and projecting data in 2d or 3d with Python.
Learn linear programming and coordinate geometry by deriving the line y = mx + c, using coordinates to find the gradient and y intercept, and link to linear regression.
Explore differentiation and differential equations in calculus, covering first and second derivatives, the power rule, the chain rule, and polynomial examples to connect calculus concepts with machine learning foundations.
Master gradient descent, updating parameters with a learning rate in the opposite gradient direction to minimize the cost function, illustrated by f(x)=x^2-4x+5 starting at x=6.
Explore statistics fundamentals, including sample, variable, data, and descriptive statistics, and learn how mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and correlation are used in data analysis.
Learn how mean, the average of data, is calculated as x bar by summing values and dividing by the count, using five heights totaling 500 as example.
Explore median by sorting data and locating the middle value, identify the mode as the most frequent value, and learn variance and standard deviation with their formulas and numpy examples.
Master pandas for data analysis and machine learning by creating series and data frames, visualizing with matplotlib, and handling CSV data with read_csv, describe, and plotting.
Discover how to use numpy for manipulating and analyzing numerical data, explore 1d to 3d arrays, indexing, slicing, reshaping, joining, and basic operations like mean and sum.
Use scikit-learn to load the iris dataset and build a k-nearest neighbors classifier on sepal and petal measurements. Achieve 97.36% accuracy in classifying iris species setosa, versicolor, and virginica.
Explore linear regression as a supervised learning method linking independent and dependent variables via y equals mx plus c, and evaluate with mean squared error and r-squared.
Explore logistic regression as a supervised classifier that predicts binary outcomes by estimating probability with a log-odds linear combination. Train on the iris dataset with scikit-learn and assess accuracy.
Explore decision tree classifiers in supervised learning, showing how to convert data to numeric, train on iris features, predict classes, and visualize the tree with graphviz.
Explore how support vector machines, a supervised learning algorithm for classification and regression, identify the hyperplane with maximum margin using support vectors on iris and breast cancer data with sklearn.
Explore k-means clustering, an unsupervised algorithm that assigns data to nearest centroid, updates centroids, and uses the elbow method to choose clusters for image segmentation, customer segmentation, and text clustering.
Explore hierarchical clustering, an unsupervised method that builds clusters by merging similar data points, using agglomerative and divisive approaches, and visualize with dendrograms and linkage matrices.
Explore principal component analysis, an unsupervised technique that reduces dimensionality by converting correlated features into uncorrelated components. Apply PCA to iris dataset, fit and transform data, and visualize explained variance.
This course is a comprehensive introduction to machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is designed for beginners who have no prior experience with these topics. By the end of the course, students will have a strong foundation in the fundamentals of machine learning and AI. They will be able to build and train machine-learning models to solve real-world problems.
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are two of the most important and rapidly developing fields of technology today. Machine learning is the process of training computers to learn from data and make predictions without being explicitly programmed. Artificial intelligence is a broader field that encompasses machine learning, as well as other areas such as natural language processing and computer vision.
Machine learning and AI are already being used in a wide range of applications, including:
Recommender systems: Machine learning is used to power recommender systems, such as those used by Netflix and Amazon to recommend products and movies to their users.
Fraud detection: Machine learning is used to detect fraudulent transactions and other types of fraud.
Medical diagnosis: Machine learning is being used to develop new tools to help doctors diagnose diseases and recommend treatments.
Self-driving cars: Self-driving cars rely on machine learning to perceive their surroundings and make decisions about how to navigate.
Course Benefits
This course will provide students with the following benefits:
A strong foundation in the fundamentals of machine learning and AI
The ability to build and train machine learning models
The ability to apply machine learning and AI to solve real-world problems
A competitive advantage in the job market
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites for this course. However, students should have essential programming experience in Python or another programming language.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
Define machine learning and artificial intelligence
Explain the different types of machine learning algorithms
Build and train machine learning models
Evaluate machine learning models
Apply machine learning and AI to solve real-world problems