Machine Learning and NLP Basics
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Machine Learning and NLP Basics
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What you'll learn
Understand machine learning basics, applying supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning for predictive modeling.
Develop deep neural networks, using CNNs and RNNs with LSTM for image classification and sequence prediction tasks.
Use NLP techniques, such as tokenization, stemming, and text classification with bag-of-words and naive Bayes methods.
Engage in hands-on projects, applying ML and NLP concepts to real-world scenarios for practical experience.
Skills you'll gain
- Model Evaluation
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Text Mining
- Model Training
- Machine Learning Methods
- Applied Machine Learning
- Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
- Data Science
- Data Processing
- Data Preprocessing
- Machine Learning
- Predictive Modeling
- Supervised Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Machine Learning Algorithms
- Artificial Intelligence
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There are 4 modules in this course
The Machine Learning and NLP Basics course is a learning resource designed for individuals interested in developing foundational knowledge of machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP).
This course is ideal for students, data scientists, software engineers, and anyone seeking to build or strengthen their skills in machine learning and natural language processing. Whether you are starting your journey or seeking to reinforce your foundation, this course provides practical skills and real-world applications. Throughout this course, participants will gain a solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals, explore various ML types, work with classification and regression techniques, and engage in practical assessments. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand and apply core concepts of machine learning and NLP. - Differentiate between various types of machine learning and when to use them. - Implement classification, regression, and optimization techniques in ML. - Utilize deep learning models for complex problem-solving. - Navigate TensorFlow for building and training models. - Explore CNNs and RNNs for image and sequence data processing. - Explore NLP techniques for text analysis and classification. Learners are expected to have a basic understanding of programming. Familiarity with Python and AI fundamentals is helpful but not required. It is designed to equip learners with the skills and confidence necessary to navigate the evolving landscape of AI and data science, laying a strong foundation for further learning and professional growth.
This module introduces Machine Learning (ML) fundamentals, types, and applications. It covers supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, and reinforcement learning, along with key methods like classification, regression, decision trees, random forests, and optimization.
What's included
28 videos4 readings4 assignments1 discussion prompt
28 videosβ’Total 148 minutes
- Course Introductionβ’5 minutes
- Artificial Intelligence Essentialsβ’7 minutes
- Disciplines of AIβ’7 minutes
- Various Application of AI Disciplinesβ’4 minutes
- Types of AIβ’4 minutes
- Type-I of Artificial Intelligenceβ’6 minutes
- Type-II of Artificial Intelligenceβ’7 minutes
- Machine Learning Fundamentalsβ’5 minutes
- Applications of Machine Learningβ’5 minutes
- Predictive ML Modelsβ’6 minutes
- Classification and Other Modelsβ’5 minutes
- ML Algorithms: Deep Diveβ’6 minutes
- ML Algorithms - Part llβ’5 minutes
- Supervised Machine Learningβ’4 minutes
- Applications of Supervised Learningβ’4 minutes
- Market Segement Strategies of Unsupervised Machine Learningβ’5 minutes
- Introduction to Unsupervised Machine Learningβ’6 minutes
- Semi-supervised Learningβ’8 minutes
- Reinforcement Learningβ’5 minutes
- Use - Case of Reinforcementβ’4 minutes
- Classificationβ’7 minutes
- Types of Classification Algorithm β’2 minutes
- Other types of Classification Algorithmβ’5 minutes
- Demonstration on Classificationβ’4 minutes
- Feature Scailing and Training the Classifierβ’5 minutes
- Visualization of Classification Reportβ’4 minutes
- Regressionβ’7 minutes
- Demonstration on Regression β’7 minutes
4 readingsβ’Total 40 minutes
- Course Overviewβ’10 minutes
- How to use Discussion Forums?β’5 minutes
- Machine Learning Case Study: Predictive Modeling for Early Detection of Diabetesβ’15 minutes
- Module Summary: Machine Learningβ’10 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 19 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Machine Learning Fundamentalsβ’3 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Machine Learning Typesβ’3 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Classification and Regressionβ’3 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Machine Learningβ’10 minutes
1 discussion promptβ’Total 10 minutes
- Relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learningβ’10 minutes
This module provides a comprehensive exploration of deep neural networks, covering fundamental concepts, practical implementations, and advanced techniques. From understanding the basics of deep learning and its comparison with human brain functioning to delving into specific architectures like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), this module equips learners with the knowledge and skills needed to design, train, and optimize deep learning models for various tasks, including image classification and sequence prediction
What's included
70 videos9 readings6 assignments5 discussion prompts
70 videosβ’Total 408 minutes
- Deep Learning Fundamentalsβ’6 minutes
- Machine Learning Vs. Deep Learningβ’5 minutes
- Human Brain vs Neural Networkβ’5 minutes
- Introduction to Neural Networkβ’5 minutes
- Perceptronβ’5 minutes
- Components of Perceptronβ’4 minutes
- Learning Rateβ’6 minutes
- Lower Learning Rateβ’4 minutes
- Epochβ’7 minutes
- Importance of Epochβ’5 minutes
- Batch Sizeβ’7 minutes
- Choosing the Right Batch Sizeβ’8 minutes
- Single Layer Perceptronβ’4 minutes
- Working of Single Layer Perceptronβ’4 minutes
- Installing TensorFlow β’7 minutes
- TensorFlow Installationβ’7 minutes
- Defining Sequence model layersβ’8 minutes
- Activation Functionβ’7 minutes
- Advanced Activation Functionsβ’7 minutes
- Layer Typesβ’6 minutes
- Types of Layer Typeβ’9 minutes
- Model Compilationβ’6 minutes
- Uses of Model Compilation β’6 minutes
- Model Optimizerβ’5 minutes
- Understanding Model Optimizerβ’8 minutes
- Uses of Model Optimizerβ’6 minutes
- Digit Classification using Simple Neural Network in TensorFlow 2.xβ’6 minutes
- Improving the modelβ’8 minutes
- Adding Hidden Layerβ’6 minutes
- Hidden Layers in Neural Networkβ’3 minutes
- Adding Dropoutβ’7 minutes
- Adam Optimizerβ’7 minutes
- How to use Adam Optimizer?β’3 minutes
- Image Classification Exampleβ’6 minutes
- Image Classification - IIβ’5 minutes
- Convolutional Neural Networkβ’7 minutes
- Why is CNN Preferred over MLPβ’7 minutes
- ReLU Layerβ’7 minutes
- Poolingβ’7 minutes
- Implementation of ReLU Layerβ’7 minutes
- Data Flatteningβ’7 minutes
- Stacking up the Layersβ’7 minutes
- Flattening Layerβ’2 minutes
- Fully Connected Layerβ’6 minutes
- The Final Layerβ’5 minutes
- Predicting a cat or a dogβ’7 minutes
- Model Building For Cat Vs. Dog Classificationβ’3 minutes
- Demonstration on Dog Vs Cat - Iβ’6 minutes
- Demonstration on Dog Vs Cat - IIβ’6 minutes
- Demonstration on Dog Vs Cat - IIIβ’5 minutes
- Importance Of Saving And Loading A Modelβ’4 minutes
- Saving and Loading a Modelβ’5 minutes
- Demo-Saving and Loading the Modelβ’6 minutes
- Implementing RNNβ’13 minutes
- LSTM Basicsβ’9 minutes
- LSTM Structureβ’5 minutes
- Gateβ’6 minutes
- Gates in LSTM β’4 minutes
- Input, Output and Forget Gateβ’7 minutes
- LSTM Architectureβ’3 minutes
- LSTM Architecture: Overviewβ’6 minutes
- LSTM Architecture: GATESβ’6 minutes
- Importance of LSTM Architectureβ’5 minutes
- Sequence Based Modelβ’3 minutes
- Sequence Based Model in CNNβ’8 minutes
- Sequence Based Model in CNN: Continuation β’1 minute
- Types of LSTMβ’5 minutes
- Vanilla LSTM and Stacked LSTMβ’7 minutes
- Convolutional Neural Network LSTMβ’4 minutes
- Bi-Directional LSTMβ’5 minutes
9 readingsβ’Total 90 minutes
- Curse of Dimensionalityβ’10 minutes
- Introduction to TensorFlow β’10 minutes
- Convolution: A Detailed Explanationβ’10 minutes
- Convolution Layer: In-Depth Explorationβ’10 minutes
- RNN Fundamentalsβ’10 minutes
- Architecture of RNN β’10 minutes
- How to increase the Efficiency of the Model?β’10 minutes
- Backpropagation through Timeβ’10 minutes
- Module Summary: Deep Learningβ’10 minutes
6 assignmentsβ’Total 25 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Deep Learning - Overviewβ’3 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Tensorflowβ’3 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Digit Classification using Simple Neural Networkβ’3 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Convolutional Neural Networksβ’3 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Recurrent Neural Network and Long Short-Term Memoryβ’3 minutes
- Knowledge check: Deep Learningβ’10 minutes
5 discussion promptsβ’Total 50 minutes
- Impact of Activation function on Single-layer Perceptronsβ’10 minutes
- Impact of Activation function on Neural Network Performanceβ’10 minutes
- Neural Network Model for Digit Classificationβ’10 minutes
- Significance of Fully Connected Layersβ’10 minutes
- Differences between traditional RNNs and LSTM networksβ’10 minutes
This Module introduces the fundamentals of text mining and analysis. It covers various techniques for extracting, cleaning, and preprocessing text data, including tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, and named entity recognition. Additionally, the module explores methods for analyzing sentence structure, such as syntax trees and chunking, along with text classification techniques using bag-of-words, count vectorizers, and multinomial naive Bayes classifiers. Through practical assignments and discussions, learners gain insights into the applications of text mining across different domains and the essential tools and processes involved in working with textual data.
What's included
39 videos4 readings4 assignments3 discussion prompts
39 videosβ’Total 223 minutes
- Text Miningβ’4 minutes
- Need of Text Miningβ’7 minutes
- Applications of Text Miningβ’7 minutes
- Comparison of Applications in Text Miningβ’4 minutes
- Setting Up NLTKβ’5 minutes
- Demonstration on Setting-up NLTKβ’5 minutes
- Accessing the NLTK Corporaβ’14 minutes
- Tokenizationβ’6 minutes
- Types of Tokenizationβ’4 minutes
- Uses of Tokenizationβ’5 minutes
- Bigrams, Trigrams & Ngramsβ’6 minutes
- Demonstration on Bigrams, Trigrams and Ngramsβ’6 minutes
- Stemmingβ’6 minutes
- Different types of Stemmerβ’2 minutes
- Demonstration on Stemmingβ’9 minutes
- Lemmatizationβ’8 minutes
- Lemmatization Using NLTKβ’5 minutes
- Stopwordsβ’5 minutes
- Demonstration on Stopwordsβ’9 minutes
- POS Taggingβ’5 minutes
- Common Tags and Descriptions of POS β’7 minutes
- Need of POS Tagsβ’5 minutes
- Demonstration on Parts of Speechβ’4 minutes
- Bag of Wordsβ’8 minutes
- Demonstration on Bag of Words Approachβ’4 minutes
- Demonstration on Bag of Words Approach - IIβ’4 minutes
- Text Processingβ’4 minutes
- Count Vectorizerβ’7 minutes
- Count Vectorization in Scikit - Learnβ’6 minutes
- Term Frequency (TF)β’6 minutes
- Term frequency in Scikit - Learnβ’4 minutes
- Demonstration on Term Frequency β’3 minutes
- Demonstration on Term Frequency - IIβ’6 minutes
- Inverse Document Frequency (IDF)β’6 minutes
- Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) Exampleβ’5 minutes
- Multinomial Naive Bayes Classifierβ’7 minutes
- Multinomial Naive Bayes Algorithmβ’5 minutes
- Leveraging Confusion Matrixβ’3 minutes
- Representation of Confusion Matrixβ’6 minutes
4 readingsβ’Total 45 minutes
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tutorialβ’10 minutes
- Frequency distribution in NLP β’10 minutes
- Detailed Exploration on Tokenizers and its Typesβ’15 minutes
- Module Summary: Natural Language Processβ’10 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 19 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Introduction to Text Mining β’3 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Extracting, Cleaning and Preprocessing Textβ’3 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Text Classificationβ’3 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Natural Language Processβ’10 minutes
3 discussion promptsβ’Total 30 minutes
- Enhance the effectiveness of Text-Based Applicationsβ’10 minutes
- Advantages and Limitations of NLP Techniquesβ’10 minutes
- Converting Text Data into Features and Labelsβ’10 minutes
This module is the final stage of the course, offering learners a comprehensive review and evaluation of the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the modules. Throughout the module learners engage in various activities to solidify their learning and assess their understanding of the course material. These activities include completing a practice project that applies learned concepts to real-world scenarios, undertaking a graded assignment to evaluate proficiency, and potentially viewing a course completion video summarizing key takeaways and achievements.
What's included
1 video1 reading1 assignment
1 videoβ’Total 5 minutes
- Course Summaryβ’5 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 15 minutes
- Practice Project: Developing an AI-Powered System for Fraud Detection in Online Transactionsβ’15 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 25 minutes
- End Course Knowledge Checkβ’25 minutes
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Prior knowledge in programming, particularly Python, is helpful but not mandatory. The course is designed to accommodate beginners, with early modules introducing foundational concepts of machine learning and NLP.
Upon successful completion of all assignments and assessments, participants will receive a certificate, acknowledging their mastery of the course material and practical skills acquired.
Yes, the course is crafted for beginners, systematically building from basic to advanced concepts, ensuring a solid understanding of both machine learning and NLP.
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