Based on the role AI/Computer Research Scientist
Machine Learning
9 lessons
What you'll learn

Unit 1
The Machine That Learns From Examples
2 lessons
- When Showing Beats Writing the Rule
- What a Model Actually Is
- Did it learn or did it memorizeExercise
- What was learned from whatChallenge
- The same world assumption
- A predictor is not a lever
- Review the machine that learnsUnit review

Unit 2
How Fitting Works: Guess, Score, Adjust
5 lessons
- How Wrong Is This Line?
- Drag the line down the hillExercise
- The step sizeExercise
- Read the DescentChallenge
- Parameters vs Hyperparameters: What You Set, What It Finds
- When to Stop Training
- Review: Guess, Score, AdjustUnit review
Unit 3
The Shape of a Learning Problem

Unit 4
Data, the Raw Material
1 lesson
- Rows, Features, and the Column You Predict
- Three piles
- The rare oneExercise
- Whats wrong with this tableChallenge
- When the answer key is wrong
- Who got recorded
- Review data the raw materialUnit review
Unit 5
The One Rule of Evaluation
Unit 6
Linear Models
Unit 7
Logistic Regression and the Decision Boundary
Unit 8
The Metric Is the Decision
Unit 9
Decision Trees
Unit 10
Neighbors and Distance
Unit 11
Cleaning and Encoding
Unit 12
Engineering Features
Unit 13
The Bias–Variance Tradeoff

Unit 14
A2 Integration: Fit, Evaluate, Explain
1 lesson
- The case arrives
- Beat the Baseline First
- Fit both familiesExercise
- Which step went wrongChallenge
- The metric the clinic needs
- Say what it can and cannot do
- Review fit evaluate explainUnit review
Unit 15
Leakage and Honest Validation
Unit 16
Ensembles
Unit 17
Probabilistic Models
Unit 18
Margins and Kernels
Unit 19
Finding Structure Without Labels
Unit 20
Tuning and Model Selection
Unit 21
Explaining a Model
Unit 22
B1 Integration: Diagnose the Failing Model
Unit 23
The Fitting Machinery Under the Hood
Unit 24
Neural Networks: The Boundary
Unit 25
Picking the Right Model
Unit 26
The Model Meets the World
Unit 27
Fairness, Privacy, and Whether to Predict at All
Unit 28
B2 Capstone: Own the Modeling Outcome
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Frequently asked questions
What does the Machine Learning roadmap cover?
4 units: The Machine That Learns From Examples, How Fitting Works: Guess, Score, Adjust, Data, the Raw Material and A2 Integration: Fit, Evaluate, Explain.
How do I start the Machine Learning roadmap?
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