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From the moment you enrol, you can begin learning at your own pace, on your own time. There are no fixed class dates, no deadlines to stress over, and no time commitments. Whether you're working full-time, balancing family life, or based in a different time zone, this course adapts to you - not the other way around. The entire learning platform is available 24/7, ensuring global professionals can engage anytime, anywhere. How Long Does It Take to Complete?
Most learners complete the core curriculum in 8 to 12 weeks when dedicating 5 to 7 hours per week. However, you can move faster if you choose, or take longer without penalty. Many begin applying key concepts to real projects within the first 10 days, seeing measurable progress in their data fluency, model understanding, and project confidence almost immediately. Lifetime Access & Future Updates Included
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Whether you’re a data analyst aiming to transition into machine learning, a software developer integrating AI into applications, a business professional leading AI projects, or a career-changer entering tech, this course is built for your success. Our structured, step-by-step method closes knowledge gaps and builds confidence systematically. Many of our past learners had similar doubts. Sarah, a marketing analyst from Canada, said,
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EXTENSIVE & DETAILED COURSE CURRICULUM
Module 1: Foundations of Machine Learning and Career Impact - Understanding the role of machine learning in modern industries
- How ML models create value in business, healthcare, finance, and tech
- Differentiating between AI, machine learning, and deep learning
- Core components of a machine learning system
- Overview of supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
- Real-world applications that drive ROI and efficiency
- Identifying high-impact use cases in your field
- The machine learning lifecycle from concept to deployment
- Common misconceptions about ML and who can succeed
- Setting realistic expectations for learning curve and outcomes
- Building career confidence through structured skill development
- Mapping ML knowledge to job roles and advancement paths
- Understanding data as the foundation of all ML models
- Introduction to structured vs unstructured data
- Recognising patterns and signals in data for predictive power
- How domain expertise enhances ML model design
- Evaluating the ethical implications of machine learning
- Precision, recall, and fairness in real decision systems
- Preparing your mindset for data-driven problem solving
- Developing a personal learning roadmap for ML mastery
Module 2: Core Mathematical and Statistical Principles - Essential algebra for understanding model parameters
- Linear equations and their role in regression models
- Basic calculus concepts: derivatives and gradients
- Understanding gradient descent and parameter optimisation
- Probability theory fundamentals for ML interpretation
- Bayes Theorem and its applications in classification
- Probability distributions: normal, binomial, and Poisson
- Statistical significance and hypothesis testing
- Variance, standard deviation, and measures of spread
- Correlation vs causation in data relationships
- Descriptive statistics for exploratory data analysis
- Data sampling techniques and their implications
- Confidence intervals and uncertainty quantification
- Mean, median, mode, and their use in preprocessing
- Outlier detection using statistical methods
- Law of large numbers and central limit theorem
- Entropy and information gain in decision trees
- Covariance and its role in feature analysis
- Logarithms and exponents in loss functions
- Practical exercises to reinforce mathematical intuition
Module 3: Data Preparation and Feature Engineering - Data cleaning: handling missing values and inconsistencies
- Removing duplicates and correcting data entry errors
- Data type conversion and standardisation
- Identifying and correcting data quality issues
- Techniques for outlier treatment and capping
- Normalisation and scaling numerical features
- One-hot encoding for categorical variables
- Label encoding and its limitations
- Binning continuous variables for interpretability
- Creating interaction features to capture complexity
- Polynomial features to model non-linear relationships
- Time-based feature creation from timestamps
- Text preprocessing: tokenisation, stemming, and lemmatisation
- Feature selection using correlation analysis
- Principal Component Analysis for dimensionality reduction
- Handling imbalanced datasets with sampling techniques
- SMOTE for synthetic minority oversampling
- Train-test-validation split strategies
- Stratified sampling to preserve class distribution
- Best practices for reproducible data pipelines
Module 4: Supervised Learning – Regression Models - Introduction to regression and continuous prediction
- Simple linear regression: concept and implementation
- Multivariate regression with multiple predictors
- Interpreting coefficients and model outputs
- Model evaluation using R-squared and adjusted R-squared
- Mean Absolute Error and Mean Squared Error interpretation
- Root Mean Squared Error for error scale understanding
- Residual analysis and assumptions checking
- Homoscedasticity, normality, and linearity tests
- Lasso regression for feature selection and shrinkage
- Ridge regression to manage multicollinearity
- Elastic Net combining L1 and L2 regularisation
- Polynomial regression for non-linear trends
- Stepwise regression and automated selection
- Building confidence intervals around predictions
- Interpreting p-values and statistical significance
- Use cases: sales forecasting, risk scoring, pricing models
- Deploying regression models in business contexts
- Validating model performance on new data
- Updating models with fresh data over time
Module 5: Supervised Learning – Classification Models - Understanding classification and categorical prediction
- Binary vs multiclass classification frameworks
- Logistic regression for probability estimation
- Interpreting odds ratios and logit transformation
- Confusion matrix: true positives, false positives, etc.
- Accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score calculations
- ROC curves and AUC for model comparison
- Threshold tuning for business-specific needs
- Naive Bayes classifiers and probabilistic reasoning
- Decision trees for interpretable rule-based logic
- Information gain and Gini impurity splits
- Pruning trees to avoid overfitting
- Support Vector Machines and kernel methods
- Linear vs non-linear SVM with RBF kernel
- Random Forests and ensemble decision-making
- Out-of-bag error estimation for validation
- Feature importance from tree-based models
- Gradient Boosting Machines and XGBoost principles
- Tuning learning rate, tree depth, and regularisation
- Early stopping to prevent overfitting
- Use cases: fraud detection, customer churn, medical diagnosis
- Communicating model results to non-technical stakeholders
- Model explainability using SHAP and LIME
- Creating classification dashboards for monitoring
- Evaluating cost-sensitive classification scenarios
Module 6: Unsupervised Learning and Clustering - Understanding unsupervised learning objectives
- Use cases: customer segmentation, anomaly detection, grouping
- k-means clustering algorithm and centroid assignment
- Choosing the optimal number of clusters (Elbow Method)
- Silhouette score for cluster quality assessment
- Handling categorical variables with k-prototypes
- Hierarchical clustering and dendrogram interpretation
- Agglomerative vs divisive clustering approaches
- Distance metrics: Euclidean, Manhattan, cosine similarity
- Gaussian Mixture Models for probabilistic clustering
- Expectation-Maximisation algorithm basics
- DBSCAN for density-based clustering
- Identifying outliers as noise points
- Clustering validation using internal and external metrics
- Interpreting cluster profiles and naming segments
- Linking clusters to business actions and strategies
- Bisecting k-means and alternative variants
- Clustering high-dimensional data with PCA preprocessing
- Mini-batch k-means for large datasets
- Self-organising maps and neural network clustering
- Practical project: segmenting customer transaction data
Module 7: Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Extraction - The curse of dimensionality and its consequences
- Why reducing features improves model performance
- Principal Component Analysis theory and derivation
- Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and variance explained
- Selecting the number of principal components
- Visualising high-dimensional data in 2D or 3D
- Interpreting PCA loadings and component meaning
- Reconstructing data from reduced components
- Limitations of PCA and assumptions
- t-SNE for non-linear dimensionality reduction
- Perplexity parameter and tuning for clarity
- UMAP as a faster, scalable alternative to t-SNE
- Linear Discriminant Analysis for supervised reduction
- Kernel PCA for non-linear feature mapping
- Autoencoders using neural networks for compression
- Sparse and denoising autoencoder variants
- Non-negative matrix factorisation for topic extraction
- Applying dimensionality reduction to text and images
- Balancing interpretability and information retention
- Best practices for integrating reduced features into models
Module 8: Model Evaluation and Validation Techniques - Train, validation, and test set best practices
- Holdout method and time-based splits
- K-fold cross-validation for robust performance estimates
- Stratified k-fold for classification balance
- Leave-one-out and nested cross-validation
- Bootstrapping for uncertainty estimation
- Bias-variance trade-off and model complexity
- Learning curves to diagnose underfitting and overfitting
- Validation curves for hyperparameter insight
- Confidence intervals for metric stability
- McNemar's test for comparing model performance
- Cohen’s kappa for inter-rater agreement
- Precision-recall curves in imbalanced scenarios
- Cost matrices and business-impact weighted metrics
- Calibration curves for probability reliability
- Brier score for probabilistic forecast accuracy
- Multi-class evaluation using macro, micro, and weighted averages
- Regression diagnostics: residual plots and Q-Q plots
- Out-of-time validation for temporal robustness
- Walk-forward validation for time series
Module 9: Hyperparameter Tuning and Optimisation - Differentiating parameters vs hyperparameters
- Manual tuning and intuition-based adjustment
- Grid search for exhaustive parameter combinations
- Random search for efficient exploration
- Bayesian optimisation using Gaussian processes
- Tree-structured Parzen Estimators (TPE)
- Optimisation with cross-validation integration
- Early stopping in iterative training processes
- Automated ML libraries like Optuna and Hyperopt
- Setting search spaces and constraints
- Multi-objective tuning for accuracy and speed
- Warm starting and transfer tuning
- Parallelisation for faster optimisation
- Logging and tracking tuning experiments
- Reproducibility of tuned models
- Deployment-ready configurations
- Hyperparameter importance analysis
- Scaling tuning to large datasets
- Best practices for maintaining tuned models
- Documenting tuning decisions for audits
Module 10: Practical Tools and Frameworks - Introduction to Python for machine learning
- Installing and managing environments with virtualenv
- Jupyter Notebooks for exploratory development
- NumPy for numerical computing
- Pandas for data manipulation and analysis
- Matplotlib and Seaborn for visualisation
- Scikit-learn for model implementation
- Setting up pipelines for reproducible workflows
- XGBoost and LightGBM for gradient boosting
- CatBoost for categorical feature handling
- Statsmodels for statistical inference and regression
- Deployment tools: Flask and FastAPI basics
- Docker for containerised model environments
- MLflow for experiment tracking
- Integrating with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Using Google Colab for GPU access
- Git and version control for ML projects
- YAML and JSON for configuration management
- Best practices for code documentation and commenting
- Automating workflows with scripts and scheduling
Module 11: Model Deployment and Monitoring - From prototype to production: deployment pathways
- API design for model serving
- RESTful endpoints for model requests
- Input validation and sanitisation
- Error handling and graceful failure
- Latency optimisation and response time targets
- Scaling models for high traffic
- Model versioning and change tracking
- Canary releases and A/B testing
- Blue-green deployment strategies
- Monitoring model performance over time
- Detecting data drift and concept drift
- Setting up alerts for degradation
- Logging predictions and inputs for audits
- Automated retraining pipelines
- Scheduled vs trigger-based retraining
- Model registry and metadata management
- Security considerations: authentication and encryption
- Compliance with data protection regulations
- Documentation for deployment and support teams
Module 12: Advanced Topics in Deep Learning - Neural networks: biological inspiration and structure
- Perceptrons and activation functions (ReLU, sigmoid, tanh)
- Feedforward networks and hidden layers
- Backpropagation and gradient flow
- Weight initialisation strategies
- Batch normalisation for stable training
- Dropout for regularisation
- Optimisers: SGD, Adam, RMSprop
- Learning rate scheduling and cyclical rates
- Convolutional Neural Networks for image data
- Filter kernels, pooling, and feature maps
- Transfer learning with pre-trained models (ResNet, VGG)
- Fine-tuning strategies for new domains
- Recurrent Neural Networks for sequences
- LSTM and GRU for long-term dependencies
- Attention mechanisms and transformers
- BERT and language model applications
- Autoencoders for anomaly detection and denoising
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) overview
- Practical project: image classification with CNNs
Module 13: Natural Language Processing Applications - Text representation: bag-of-words, TF-IDF
- Word embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText
- Sentence and document embeddings
- Text classification: spam detection, sentiment analysis
- Named Entity Recognition for information extraction
- Topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing
- Text summarisation techniques: extractive and abstractive
- Machine translation fundamentals
- Chatbot design and intent classification
- Using spaCy and NLTK libraries
- Regular expressions for text cleaning
- Handling multilingual text data
- Emotion detection in social media
- Customer feedback analysis systems
- Legal document processing use cases
- Building search relevance models
- Keyword extraction and ontology creation
- Evaluating NLP model performance
- Deploying text models at scale
Module 14: Time Series Forecasting and Anomaly Detection - Understanding temporal data structure
- Trends, seasonality, and cyclic patterns
- Stationarity and differencing (ADF test)
- Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions
- AR, MA, ARMA, and ARIMA models
- SARIMA for seasonal data
- Prophet for intuitive forecasting
- Exponential smoothing methods (Holt-Winters)
- Vector autoregression for multivariate series
- Long Short-Term Memory networks for sequence prediction
- Handling missing data in time series
- Frequency alignment and resampling
- Rolling windows and expanding windows
- Anomaly detection using statistical thresholds
- Isolation Forests for outlier identification
- One-Class SVM for novelty detection
- Autoencoder-based anomaly scoring
- Real-time monitoring systems
- Alerting strategies for operational teams
- Validating forecasts with backtesting
Module 15: Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - Identifying bias in training data and labels
- Algorithmic fairness metrics: demographic parity, equal opportunity
- Disparate impact analysis
- Model transparency and explainability
- Right to explanation under GDPR and other regulations
- Data privacy and anonymisation techniques
- Differential privacy for sensitive data
- Consent and data use compliance
- Auditability of model decisions
- Creating AI guidelines and review boards
- Mitigating representation bias
- Monitoring for discriminatory outcomes
- Stakeholder engagement in AI development
- Documentation for model cards and datasheets
- Handling contested predictions responsibly
- Whistleblower protections and reporting channels
- Societal impact assessments
- Energy consumption and environmental cost of models
- Promoting inclusive design principles
- Future-proofing models against ethical risks
Module 16: Career Advancement and Real-World Implementation - Building a machine learning portfolio
- Documenting projects with clear problem-solution-impact
- Creating GitHub repositories with reproducible code
- Writing effective technical case studies
- Presenting models to executives and non-technical teams
- Negotiating data access and cross-functional collaboration
- Leading AI initiatives in non-AI organisations
- Upskilling teams and knowledge transfer
- Securing budget for AI projects
- Defining KPIs and measuring project success
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Agile methodologies for data science teams
- Integrating ML into existing workflows
- Change management for AI adoption
- Benchmarking performance against industry standards
- Networking in the data science community
- Using LinkedIn to showcase expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews and take-home challenges
- Salary negotiation with data-backed evidence
- Planning your next career move with confidence
Module 17: Capstone Project and Certification - Selecting a real-world problem for your capstone
- Data sourcing and ethical acquisition
- Defining success metrics and business impact
- End-to-end project planning and timeline setting
- Data cleaning and exploratory analysis
- Feature engineering and model selection
- Training and validating multiple models
- Hyperparameter tuning and performance refinement
- Model explainability and visual reporting
- Creating a professional project report
- Recording methodology and decisions
- Peer review and feedback integration
- Final presentation preparation
- Submission guidelines for certification
- How the assessment process works
- Receiving feedback from expert evaluators
- Revising based on feedback if needed
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to display and leverage your certification
- Lifetime access to update your capstone with new skills
Module 1: Foundations of Machine Learning and Career Impact - Understanding the role of machine learning in modern industries
- How ML models create value in business, healthcare, finance, and tech
- Differentiating between AI, machine learning, and deep learning
- Core components of a machine learning system
- Overview of supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
- Real-world applications that drive ROI and efficiency
- Identifying high-impact use cases in your field
- The machine learning lifecycle from concept to deployment
- Common misconceptions about ML and who can succeed
- Setting realistic expectations for learning curve and outcomes
- Building career confidence through structured skill development
- Mapping ML knowledge to job roles and advancement paths
- Understanding data as the foundation of all ML models
- Introduction to structured vs unstructured data
- Recognising patterns and signals in data for predictive power
- How domain expertise enhances ML model design
- Evaluating the ethical implications of machine learning
- Precision, recall, and fairness in real decision systems
- Preparing your mindset for data-driven problem solving
- Developing a personal learning roadmap for ML mastery
Module 2: Core Mathematical and Statistical Principles - Essential algebra for understanding model parameters
- Linear equations and their role in regression models
- Basic calculus concepts: derivatives and gradients
- Understanding gradient descent and parameter optimisation
- Probability theory fundamentals for ML interpretation
- Bayes Theorem and its applications in classification
- Probability distributions: normal, binomial, and Poisson
- Statistical significance and hypothesis testing
- Variance, standard deviation, and measures of spread
- Correlation vs causation in data relationships
- Descriptive statistics for exploratory data analysis
- Data sampling techniques and their implications
- Confidence intervals and uncertainty quantification
- Mean, median, mode, and their use in preprocessing
- Outlier detection using statistical methods
- Law of large numbers and central limit theorem
- Entropy and information gain in decision trees
- Covariance and its role in feature analysis
- Logarithms and exponents in loss functions
- Practical exercises to reinforce mathematical intuition
Module 3: Data Preparation and Feature Engineering - Data cleaning: handling missing values and inconsistencies
- Removing duplicates and correcting data entry errors
- Data type conversion and standardisation
- Identifying and correcting data quality issues
- Techniques for outlier treatment and capping
- Normalisation and scaling numerical features
- One-hot encoding for categorical variables
- Label encoding and its limitations
- Binning continuous variables for interpretability
- Creating interaction features to capture complexity
- Polynomial features to model non-linear relationships
- Time-based feature creation from timestamps
- Text preprocessing: tokenisation, stemming, and lemmatisation
- Feature selection using correlation analysis
- Principal Component Analysis for dimensionality reduction
- Handling imbalanced datasets with sampling techniques
- SMOTE for synthetic minority oversampling
- Train-test-validation split strategies
- Stratified sampling to preserve class distribution
- Best practices for reproducible data pipelines
Module 4: Supervised Learning – Regression Models - Introduction to regression and continuous prediction
- Simple linear regression: concept and implementation
- Multivariate regression with multiple predictors
- Interpreting coefficients and model outputs
- Model evaluation using R-squared and adjusted R-squared
- Mean Absolute Error and Mean Squared Error interpretation
- Root Mean Squared Error for error scale understanding
- Residual analysis and assumptions checking
- Homoscedasticity, normality, and linearity tests
- Lasso regression for feature selection and shrinkage
- Ridge regression to manage multicollinearity
- Elastic Net combining L1 and L2 regularisation
- Polynomial regression for non-linear trends
- Stepwise regression and automated selection
- Building confidence intervals around predictions
- Interpreting p-values and statistical significance
- Use cases: sales forecasting, risk scoring, pricing models
- Deploying regression models in business contexts
- Validating model performance on new data
- Updating models with fresh data over time
Module 5: Supervised Learning – Classification Models - Understanding classification and categorical prediction
- Binary vs multiclass classification frameworks
- Logistic regression for probability estimation
- Interpreting odds ratios and logit transformation
- Confusion matrix: true positives, false positives, etc.
- Accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score calculations
- ROC curves and AUC for model comparison
- Threshold tuning for business-specific needs
- Naive Bayes classifiers and probabilistic reasoning
- Decision trees for interpretable rule-based logic
- Information gain and Gini impurity splits
- Pruning trees to avoid overfitting
- Support Vector Machines and kernel methods
- Linear vs non-linear SVM with RBF kernel
- Random Forests and ensemble decision-making
- Out-of-bag error estimation for validation
- Feature importance from tree-based models
- Gradient Boosting Machines and XGBoost principles
- Tuning learning rate, tree depth, and regularisation
- Early stopping to prevent overfitting
- Use cases: fraud detection, customer churn, medical diagnosis
- Communicating model results to non-technical stakeholders
- Model explainability using SHAP and LIME
- Creating classification dashboards for monitoring
- Evaluating cost-sensitive classification scenarios
Module 6: Unsupervised Learning and Clustering - Understanding unsupervised learning objectives
- Use cases: customer segmentation, anomaly detection, grouping
- k-means clustering algorithm and centroid assignment
- Choosing the optimal number of clusters (Elbow Method)
- Silhouette score for cluster quality assessment
- Handling categorical variables with k-prototypes
- Hierarchical clustering and dendrogram interpretation
- Agglomerative vs divisive clustering approaches
- Distance metrics: Euclidean, Manhattan, cosine similarity
- Gaussian Mixture Models for probabilistic clustering
- Expectation-Maximisation algorithm basics
- DBSCAN for density-based clustering
- Identifying outliers as noise points
- Clustering validation using internal and external metrics
- Interpreting cluster profiles and naming segments
- Linking clusters to business actions and strategies
- Bisecting k-means and alternative variants
- Clustering high-dimensional data with PCA preprocessing
- Mini-batch k-means for large datasets
- Self-organising maps and neural network clustering
- Practical project: segmenting customer transaction data
Module 7: Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Extraction - The curse of dimensionality and its consequences
- Why reducing features improves model performance
- Principal Component Analysis theory and derivation
- Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and variance explained
- Selecting the number of principal components
- Visualising high-dimensional data in 2D or 3D
- Interpreting PCA loadings and component meaning
- Reconstructing data from reduced components
- Limitations of PCA and assumptions
- t-SNE for non-linear dimensionality reduction
- Perplexity parameter and tuning for clarity
- UMAP as a faster, scalable alternative to t-SNE
- Linear Discriminant Analysis for supervised reduction
- Kernel PCA for non-linear feature mapping
- Autoencoders using neural networks for compression
- Sparse and denoising autoencoder variants
- Non-negative matrix factorisation for topic extraction
- Applying dimensionality reduction to text and images
- Balancing interpretability and information retention
- Best practices for integrating reduced features into models
Module 8: Model Evaluation and Validation Techniques - Train, validation, and test set best practices
- Holdout method and time-based splits
- K-fold cross-validation for robust performance estimates
- Stratified k-fold for classification balance
- Leave-one-out and nested cross-validation
- Bootstrapping for uncertainty estimation
- Bias-variance trade-off and model complexity
- Learning curves to diagnose underfitting and overfitting
- Validation curves for hyperparameter insight
- Confidence intervals for metric stability
- McNemar's test for comparing model performance
- Cohen’s kappa for inter-rater agreement
- Precision-recall curves in imbalanced scenarios
- Cost matrices and business-impact weighted metrics
- Calibration curves for probability reliability
- Brier score for probabilistic forecast accuracy
- Multi-class evaluation using macro, micro, and weighted averages
- Regression diagnostics: residual plots and Q-Q plots
- Out-of-time validation for temporal robustness
- Walk-forward validation for time series
Module 9: Hyperparameter Tuning and Optimisation - Differentiating parameters vs hyperparameters
- Manual tuning and intuition-based adjustment
- Grid search for exhaustive parameter combinations
- Random search for efficient exploration
- Bayesian optimisation using Gaussian processes
- Tree-structured Parzen Estimators (TPE)
- Optimisation with cross-validation integration
- Early stopping in iterative training processes
- Automated ML libraries like Optuna and Hyperopt
- Setting search spaces and constraints
- Multi-objective tuning for accuracy and speed
- Warm starting and transfer tuning
- Parallelisation for faster optimisation
- Logging and tracking tuning experiments
- Reproducibility of tuned models
- Deployment-ready configurations
- Hyperparameter importance analysis
- Scaling tuning to large datasets
- Best practices for maintaining tuned models
- Documenting tuning decisions for audits
Module 10: Practical Tools and Frameworks - Introduction to Python for machine learning
- Installing and managing environments with virtualenv
- Jupyter Notebooks for exploratory development
- NumPy for numerical computing
- Pandas for data manipulation and analysis
- Matplotlib and Seaborn for visualisation
- Scikit-learn for model implementation
- Setting up pipelines for reproducible workflows
- XGBoost and LightGBM for gradient boosting
- CatBoost for categorical feature handling
- Statsmodels for statistical inference and regression
- Deployment tools: Flask and FastAPI basics
- Docker for containerised model environments
- MLflow for experiment tracking
- Integrating with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Using Google Colab for GPU access
- Git and version control for ML projects
- YAML and JSON for configuration management
- Best practices for code documentation and commenting
- Automating workflows with scripts and scheduling
Module 11: Model Deployment and Monitoring - From prototype to production: deployment pathways
- API design for model serving
- RESTful endpoints for model requests
- Input validation and sanitisation
- Error handling and graceful failure
- Latency optimisation and response time targets
- Scaling models for high traffic
- Model versioning and change tracking
- Canary releases and A/B testing
- Blue-green deployment strategies
- Monitoring model performance over time
- Detecting data drift and concept drift
- Setting up alerts for degradation
- Logging predictions and inputs for audits
- Automated retraining pipelines
- Scheduled vs trigger-based retraining
- Model registry and metadata management
- Security considerations: authentication and encryption
- Compliance with data protection regulations
- Documentation for deployment and support teams
Module 12: Advanced Topics in Deep Learning - Neural networks: biological inspiration and structure
- Perceptrons and activation functions (ReLU, sigmoid, tanh)
- Feedforward networks and hidden layers
- Backpropagation and gradient flow
- Weight initialisation strategies
- Batch normalisation for stable training
- Dropout for regularisation
- Optimisers: SGD, Adam, RMSprop
- Learning rate scheduling and cyclical rates
- Convolutional Neural Networks for image data
- Filter kernels, pooling, and feature maps
- Transfer learning with pre-trained models (ResNet, VGG)
- Fine-tuning strategies for new domains
- Recurrent Neural Networks for sequences
- LSTM and GRU for long-term dependencies
- Attention mechanisms and transformers
- BERT and language model applications
- Autoencoders for anomaly detection and denoising
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) overview
- Practical project: image classification with CNNs
Module 13: Natural Language Processing Applications - Text representation: bag-of-words, TF-IDF
- Word embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText
- Sentence and document embeddings
- Text classification: spam detection, sentiment analysis
- Named Entity Recognition for information extraction
- Topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing
- Text summarisation techniques: extractive and abstractive
- Machine translation fundamentals
- Chatbot design and intent classification
- Using spaCy and NLTK libraries
- Regular expressions for text cleaning
- Handling multilingual text data
- Emotion detection in social media
- Customer feedback analysis systems
- Legal document processing use cases
- Building search relevance models
- Keyword extraction and ontology creation
- Evaluating NLP model performance
- Deploying text models at scale
Module 14: Time Series Forecasting and Anomaly Detection - Understanding temporal data structure
- Trends, seasonality, and cyclic patterns
- Stationarity and differencing (ADF test)
- Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions
- AR, MA, ARMA, and ARIMA models
- SARIMA for seasonal data
- Prophet for intuitive forecasting
- Exponential smoothing methods (Holt-Winters)
- Vector autoregression for multivariate series
- Long Short-Term Memory networks for sequence prediction
- Handling missing data in time series
- Frequency alignment and resampling
- Rolling windows and expanding windows
- Anomaly detection using statistical thresholds
- Isolation Forests for outlier identification
- One-Class SVM for novelty detection
- Autoencoder-based anomaly scoring
- Real-time monitoring systems
- Alerting strategies for operational teams
- Validating forecasts with backtesting
Module 15: Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - Identifying bias in training data and labels
- Algorithmic fairness metrics: demographic parity, equal opportunity
- Disparate impact analysis
- Model transparency and explainability
- Right to explanation under GDPR and other regulations
- Data privacy and anonymisation techniques
- Differential privacy for sensitive data
- Consent and data use compliance
- Auditability of model decisions
- Creating AI guidelines and review boards
- Mitigating representation bias
- Monitoring for discriminatory outcomes
- Stakeholder engagement in AI development
- Documentation for model cards and datasheets
- Handling contested predictions responsibly
- Whistleblower protections and reporting channels
- Societal impact assessments
- Energy consumption and environmental cost of models
- Promoting inclusive design principles
- Future-proofing models against ethical risks
Module 16: Career Advancement and Real-World Implementation - Building a machine learning portfolio
- Documenting projects with clear problem-solution-impact
- Creating GitHub repositories with reproducible code
- Writing effective technical case studies
- Presenting models to executives and non-technical teams
- Negotiating data access and cross-functional collaboration
- Leading AI initiatives in non-AI organisations
- Upskilling teams and knowledge transfer
- Securing budget for AI projects
- Defining KPIs and measuring project success
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Agile methodologies for data science teams
- Integrating ML into existing workflows
- Change management for AI adoption
- Benchmarking performance against industry standards
- Networking in the data science community
- Using LinkedIn to showcase expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews and take-home challenges
- Salary negotiation with data-backed evidence
- Planning your next career move with confidence
Module 17: Capstone Project and Certification - Selecting a real-world problem for your capstone
- Data sourcing and ethical acquisition
- Defining success metrics and business impact
- End-to-end project planning and timeline setting
- Data cleaning and exploratory analysis
- Feature engineering and model selection
- Training and validating multiple models
- Hyperparameter tuning and performance refinement
- Model explainability and visual reporting
- Creating a professional project report
- Recording methodology and decisions
- Peer review and feedback integration
- Final presentation preparation
- Submission guidelines for certification
- How the assessment process works
- Receiving feedback from expert evaluators
- Revising based on feedback if needed
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to display and leverage your certification
- Lifetime access to update your capstone with new skills
- Essential algebra for understanding model parameters
- Linear equations and their role in regression models
- Basic calculus concepts: derivatives and gradients
- Understanding gradient descent and parameter optimisation
- Probability theory fundamentals for ML interpretation
- Bayes Theorem and its applications in classification
- Probability distributions: normal, binomial, and Poisson
- Statistical significance and hypothesis testing
- Variance, standard deviation, and measures of spread
- Correlation vs causation in data relationships
- Descriptive statistics for exploratory data analysis
- Data sampling techniques and their implications
- Confidence intervals and uncertainty quantification
- Mean, median, mode, and their use in preprocessing
- Outlier detection using statistical methods
- Law of large numbers and central limit theorem
- Entropy and information gain in decision trees
- Covariance and its role in feature analysis
- Logarithms and exponents in loss functions
- Practical exercises to reinforce mathematical intuition
Module 3: Data Preparation and Feature Engineering - Data cleaning: handling missing values and inconsistencies
- Removing duplicates and correcting data entry errors
- Data type conversion and standardisation
- Identifying and correcting data quality issues
- Techniques for outlier treatment and capping
- Normalisation and scaling numerical features
- One-hot encoding for categorical variables
- Label encoding and its limitations
- Binning continuous variables for interpretability
- Creating interaction features to capture complexity
- Polynomial features to model non-linear relationships
- Time-based feature creation from timestamps
- Text preprocessing: tokenisation, stemming, and lemmatisation
- Feature selection using correlation analysis
- Principal Component Analysis for dimensionality reduction
- Handling imbalanced datasets with sampling techniques
- SMOTE for synthetic minority oversampling
- Train-test-validation split strategies
- Stratified sampling to preserve class distribution
- Best practices for reproducible data pipelines
Module 4: Supervised Learning – Regression Models - Introduction to regression and continuous prediction
- Simple linear regression: concept and implementation
- Multivariate regression with multiple predictors
- Interpreting coefficients and model outputs
- Model evaluation using R-squared and adjusted R-squared
- Mean Absolute Error and Mean Squared Error interpretation
- Root Mean Squared Error for error scale understanding
- Residual analysis and assumptions checking
- Homoscedasticity, normality, and linearity tests
- Lasso regression for feature selection and shrinkage
- Ridge regression to manage multicollinearity
- Elastic Net combining L1 and L2 regularisation
- Polynomial regression for non-linear trends
- Stepwise regression and automated selection
- Building confidence intervals around predictions
- Interpreting p-values and statistical significance
- Use cases: sales forecasting, risk scoring, pricing models
- Deploying regression models in business contexts
- Validating model performance on new data
- Updating models with fresh data over time
Module 5: Supervised Learning – Classification Models - Understanding classification and categorical prediction
- Binary vs multiclass classification frameworks
- Logistic regression for probability estimation
- Interpreting odds ratios and logit transformation
- Confusion matrix: true positives, false positives, etc.
- Accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score calculations
- ROC curves and AUC for model comparison
- Threshold tuning for business-specific needs
- Naive Bayes classifiers and probabilistic reasoning
- Decision trees for interpretable rule-based logic
- Information gain and Gini impurity splits
- Pruning trees to avoid overfitting
- Support Vector Machines and kernel methods
- Linear vs non-linear SVM with RBF kernel
- Random Forests and ensemble decision-making
- Out-of-bag error estimation for validation
- Feature importance from tree-based models
- Gradient Boosting Machines and XGBoost principles
- Tuning learning rate, tree depth, and regularisation
- Early stopping to prevent overfitting
- Use cases: fraud detection, customer churn, medical diagnosis
- Communicating model results to non-technical stakeholders
- Model explainability using SHAP and LIME
- Creating classification dashboards for monitoring
- Evaluating cost-sensitive classification scenarios
Module 6: Unsupervised Learning and Clustering - Understanding unsupervised learning objectives
- Use cases: customer segmentation, anomaly detection, grouping
- k-means clustering algorithm and centroid assignment
- Choosing the optimal number of clusters (Elbow Method)
- Silhouette score for cluster quality assessment
- Handling categorical variables with k-prototypes
- Hierarchical clustering and dendrogram interpretation
- Agglomerative vs divisive clustering approaches
- Distance metrics: Euclidean, Manhattan, cosine similarity
- Gaussian Mixture Models for probabilistic clustering
- Expectation-Maximisation algorithm basics
- DBSCAN for density-based clustering
- Identifying outliers as noise points
- Clustering validation using internal and external metrics
- Interpreting cluster profiles and naming segments
- Linking clusters to business actions and strategies
- Bisecting k-means and alternative variants
- Clustering high-dimensional data with PCA preprocessing
- Mini-batch k-means for large datasets
- Self-organising maps and neural network clustering
- Practical project: segmenting customer transaction data
Module 7: Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Extraction - The curse of dimensionality and its consequences
- Why reducing features improves model performance
- Principal Component Analysis theory and derivation
- Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and variance explained
- Selecting the number of principal components
- Visualising high-dimensional data in 2D or 3D
- Interpreting PCA loadings and component meaning
- Reconstructing data from reduced components
- Limitations of PCA and assumptions
- t-SNE for non-linear dimensionality reduction
- Perplexity parameter and tuning for clarity
- UMAP as a faster, scalable alternative to t-SNE
- Linear Discriminant Analysis for supervised reduction
- Kernel PCA for non-linear feature mapping
- Autoencoders using neural networks for compression
- Sparse and denoising autoencoder variants
- Non-negative matrix factorisation for topic extraction
- Applying dimensionality reduction to text and images
- Balancing interpretability and information retention
- Best practices for integrating reduced features into models
Module 8: Model Evaluation and Validation Techniques - Train, validation, and test set best practices
- Holdout method and time-based splits
- K-fold cross-validation for robust performance estimates
- Stratified k-fold for classification balance
- Leave-one-out and nested cross-validation
- Bootstrapping for uncertainty estimation
- Bias-variance trade-off and model complexity
- Learning curves to diagnose underfitting and overfitting
- Validation curves for hyperparameter insight
- Confidence intervals for metric stability
- McNemar's test for comparing model performance
- Cohen’s kappa for inter-rater agreement
- Precision-recall curves in imbalanced scenarios
- Cost matrices and business-impact weighted metrics
- Calibration curves for probability reliability
- Brier score for probabilistic forecast accuracy
- Multi-class evaluation using macro, micro, and weighted averages
- Regression diagnostics: residual plots and Q-Q plots
- Out-of-time validation for temporal robustness
- Walk-forward validation for time series
Module 9: Hyperparameter Tuning and Optimisation - Differentiating parameters vs hyperparameters
- Manual tuning and intuition-based adjustment
- Grid search for exhaustive parameter combinations
- Random search for efficient exploration
- Bayesian optimisation using Gaussian processes
- Tree-structured Parzen Estimators (TPE)
- Optimisation with cross-validation integration
- Early stopping in iterative training processes
- Automated ML libraries like Optuna and Hyperopt
- Setting search spaces and constraints
- Multi-objective tuning for accuracy and speed
- Warm starting and transfer tuning
- Parallelisation for faster optimisation
- Logging and tracking tuning experiments
- Reproducibility of tuned models
- Deployment-ready configurations
- Hyperparameter importance analysis
- Scaling tuning to large datasets
- Best practices for maintaining tuned models
- Documenting tuning decisions for audits
Module 10: Practical Tools and Frameworks - Introduction to Python for machine learning
- Installing and managing environments with virtualenv
- Jupyter Notebooks for exploratory development
- NumPy for numerical computing
- Pandas for data manipulation and analysis
- Matplotlib and Seaborn for visualisation
- Scikit-learn for model implementation
- Setting up pipelines for reproducible workflows
- XGBoost and LightGBM for gradient boosting
- CatBoost for categorical feature handling
- Statsmodels for statistical inference and regression
- Deployment tools: Flask and FastAPI basics
- Docker for containerised model environments
- MLflow for experiment tracking
- Integrating with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Using Google Colab for GPU access
- Git and version control for ML projects
- YAML and JSON for configuration management
- Best practices for code documentation and commenting
- Automating workflows with scripts and scheduling
Module 11: Model Deployment and Monitoring - From prototype to production: deployment pathways
- API design for model serving
- RESTful endpoints for model requests
- Input validation and sanitisation
- Error handling and graceful failure
- Latency optimisation and response time targets
- Scaling models for high traffic
- Model versioning and change tracking
- Canary releases and A/B testing
- Blue-green deployment strategies
- Monitoring model performance over time
- Detecting data drift and concept drift
- Setting up alerts for degradation
- Logging predictions and inputs for audits
- Automated retraining pipelines
- Scheduled vs trigger-based retraining
- Model registry and metadata management
- Security considerations: authentication and encryption
- Compliance with data protection regulations
- Documentation for deployment and support teams
Module 12: Advanced Topics in Deep Learning - Neural networks: biological inspiration and structure
- Perceptrons and activation functions (ReLU, sigmoid, tanh)
- Feedforward networks and hidden layers
- Backpropagation and gradient flow
- Weight initialisation strategies
- Batch normalisation for stable training
- Dropout for regularisation
- Optimisers: SGD, Adam, RMSprop
- Learning rate scheduling and cyclical rates
- Convolutional Neural Networks for image data
- Filter kernels, pooling, and feature maps
- Transfer learning with pre-trained models (ResNet, VGG)
- Fine-tuning strategies for new domains
- Recurrent Neural Networks for sequences
- LSTM and GRU for long-term dependencies
- Attention mechanisms and transformers
- BERT and language model applications
- Autoencoders for anomaly detection and denoising
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) overview
- Practical project: image classification with CNNs
Module 13: Natural Language Processing Applications - Text representation: bag-of-words, TF-IDF
- Word embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText
- Sentence and document embeddings
- Text classification: spam detection, sentiment analysis
- Named Entity Recognition for information extraction
- Topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing
- Text summarisation techniques: extractive and abstractive
- Machine translation fundamentals
- Chatbot design and intent classification
- Using spaCy and NLTK libraries
- Regular expressions for text cleaning
- Handling multilingual text data
- Emotion detection in social media
- Customer feedback analysis systems
- Legal document processing use cases
- Building search relevance models
- Keyword extraction and ontology creation
- Evaluating NLP model performance
- Deploying text models at scale
Module 14: Time Series Forecasting and Anomaly Detection - Understanding temporal data structure
- Trends, seasonality, and cyclic patterns
- Stationarity and differencing (ADF test)
- Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions
- AR, MA, ARMA, and ARIMA models
- SARIMA for seasonal data
- Prophet for intuitive forecasting
- Exponential smoothing methods (Holt-Winters)
- Vector autoregression for multivariate series
- Long Short-Term Memory networks for sequence prediction
- Handling missing data in time series
- Frequency alignment and resampling
- Rolling windows and expanding windows
- Anomaly detection using statistical thresholds
- Isolation Forests for outlier identification
- One-Class SVM for novelty detection
- Autoencoder-based anomaly scoring
- Real-time monitoring systems
- Alerting strategies for operational teams
- Validating forecasts with backtesting
Module 15: Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - Identifying bias in training data and labels
- Algorithmic fairness metrics: demographic parity, equal opportunity
- Disparate impact analysis
- Model transparency and explainability
- Right to explanation under GDPR and other regulations
- Data privacy and anonymisation techniques
- Differential privacy for sensitive data
- Consent and data use compliance
- Auditability of model decisions
- Creating AI guidelines and review boards
- Mitigating representation bias
- Monitoring for discriminatory outcomes
- Stakeholder engagement in AI development
- Documentation for model cards and datasheets
- Handling contested predictions responsibly
- Whistleblower protections and reporting channels
- Societal impact assessments
- Energy consumption and environmental cost of models
- Promoting inclusive design principles
- Future-proofing models against ethical risks
Module 16: Career Advancement and Real-World Implementation - Building a machine learning portfolio
- Documenting projects with clear problem-solution-impact
- Creating GitHub repositories with reproducible code
- Writing effective technical case studies
- Presenting models to executives and non-technical teams
- Negotiating data access and cross-functional collaboration
- Leading AI initiatives in non-AI organisations
- Upskilling teams and knowledge transfer
- Securing budget for AI projects
- Defining KPIs and measuring project success
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Agile methodologies for data science teams
- Integrating ML into existing workflows
- Change management for AI adoption
- Benchmarking performance against industry standards
- Networking in the data science community
- Using LinkedIn to showcase expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews and take-home challenges
- Salary negotiation with data-backed evidence
- Planning your next career move with confidence
Module 17: Capstone Project and Certification - Selecting a real-world problem for your capstone
- Data sourcing and ethical acquisition
- Defining success metrics and business impact
- End-to-end project planning and timeline setting
- Data cleaning and exploratory analysis
- Feature engineering and model selection
- Training and validating multiple models
- Hyperparameter tuning and performance refinement
- Model explainability and visual reporting
- Creating a professional project report
- Recording methodology and decisions
- Peer review and feedback integration
- Final presentation preparation
- Submission guidelines for certification
- How the assessment process works
- Receiving feedback from expert evaluators
- Revising based on feedback if needed
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to display and leverage your certification
- Lifetime access to update your capstone with new skills
- Introduction to regression and continuous prediction
- Simple linear regression: concept and implementation
- Multivariate regression with multiple predictors
- Interpreting coefficients and model outputs
- Model evaluation using R-squared and adjusted R-squared
- Mean Absolute Error and Mean Squared Error interpretation
- Root Mean Squared Error for error scale understanding
- Residual analysis and assumptions checking
- Homoscedasticity, normality, and linearity tests
- Lasso regression for feature selection and shrinkage
- Ridge regression to manage multicollinearity
- Elastic Net combining L1 and L2 regularisation
- Polynomial regression for non-linear trends
- Stepwise regression and automated selection
- Building confidence intervals around predictions
- Interpreting p-values and statistical significance
- Use cases: sales forecasting, risk scoring, pricing models
- Deploying regression models in business contexts
- Validating model performance on new data
- Updating models with fresh data over time
Module 5: Supervised Learning – Classification Models - Understanding classification and categorical prediction
- Binary vs multiclass classification frameworks
- Logistic regression for probability estimation
- Interpreting odds ratios and logit transformation
- Confusion matrix: true positives, false positives, etc.
- Accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score calculations
- ROC curves and AUC for model comparison
- Threshold tuning for business-specific needs
- Naive Bayes classifiers and probabilistic reasoning
- Decision trees for interpretable rule-based logic
- Information gain and Gini impurity splits
- Pruning trees to avoid overfitting
- Support Vector Machines and kernel methods
- Linear vs non-linear SVM with RBF kernel
- Random Forests and ensemble decision-making
- Out-of-bag error estimation for validation
- Feature importance from tree-based models
- Gradient Boosting Machines and XGBoost principles
- Tuning learning rate, tree depth, and regularisation
- Early stopping to prevent overfitting
- Use cases: fraud detection, customer churn, medical diagnosis
- Communicating model results to non-technical stakeholders
- Model explainability using SHAP and LIME
- Creating classification dashboards for monitoring
- Evaluating cost-sensitive classification scenarios
Module 6: Unsupervised Learning and Clustering - Understanding unsupervised learning objectives
- Use cases: customer segmentation, anomaly detection, grouping
- k-means clustering algorithm and centroid assignment
- Choosing the optimal number of clusters (Elbow Method)
- Silhouette score for cluster quality assessment
- Handling categorical variables with k-prototypes
- Hierarchical clustering and dendrogram interpretation
- Agglomerative vs divisive clustering approaches
- Distance metrics: Euclidean, Manhattan, cosine similarity
- Gaussian Mixture Models for probabilistic clustering
- Expectation-Maximisation algorithm basics
- DBSCAN for density-based clustering
- Identifying outliers as noise points
- Clustering validation using internal and external metrics
- Interpreting cluster profiles and naming segments
- Linking clusters to business actions and strategies
- Bisecting k-means and alternative variants
- Clustering high-dimensional data with PCA preprocessing
- Mini-batch k-means for large datasets
- Self-organising maps and neural network clustering
- Practical project: segmenting customer transaction data
Module 7: Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Extraction - The curse of dimensionality and its consequences
- Why reducing features improves model performance
- Principal Component Analysis theory and derivation
- Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and variance explained
- Selecting the number of principal components
- Visualising high-dimensional data in 2D or 3D
- Interpreting PCA loadings and component meaning
- Reconstructing data from reduced components
- Limitations of PCA and assumptions
- t-SNE for non-linear dimensionality reduction
- Perplexity parameter and tuning for clarity
- UMAP as a faster, scalable alternative to t-SNE
- Linear Discriminant Analysis for supervised reduction
- Kernel PCA for non-linear feature mapping
- Autoencoders using neural networks for compression
- Sparse and denoising autoencoder variants
- Non-negative matrix factorisation for topic extraction
- Applying dimensionality reduction to text and images
- Balancing interpretability and information retention
- Best practices for integrating reduced features into models
Module 8: Model Evaluation and Validation Techniques - Train, validation, and test set best practices
- Holdout method and time-based splits
- K-fold cross-validation for robust performance estimates
- Stratified k-fold for classification balance
- Leave-one-out and nested cross-validation
- Bootstrapping for uncertainty estimation
- Bias-variance trade-off and model complexity
- Learning curves to diagnose underfitting and overfitting
- Validation curves for hyperparameter insight
- Confidence intervals for metric stability
- McNemar's test for comparing model performance
- Cohen’s kappa for inter-rater agreement
- Precision-recall curves in imbalanced scenarios
- Cost matrices and business-impact weighted metrics
- Calibration curves for probability reliability
- Brier score for probabilistic forecast accuracy
- Multi-class evaluation using macro, micro, and weighted averages
- Regression diagnostics: residual plots and Q-Q plots
- Out-of-time validation for temporal robustness
- Walk-forward validation for time series
Module 9: Hyperparameter Tuning and Optimisation - Differentiating parameters vs hyperparameters
- Manual tuning and intuition-based adjustment
- Grid search for exhaustive parameter combinations
- Random search for efficient exploration
- Bayesian optimisation using Gaussian processes
- Tree-structured Parzen Estimators (TPE)
- Optimisation with cross-validation integration
- Early stopping in iterative training processes
- Automated ML libraries like Optuna and Hyperopt
- Setting search spaces and constraints
- Multi-objective tuning for accuracy and speed
- Warm starting and transfer tuning
- Parallelisation for faster optimisation
- Logging and tracking tuning experiments
- Reproducibility of tuned models
- Deployment-ready configurations
- Hyperparameter importance analysis
- Scaling tuning to large datasets
- Best practices for maintaining tuned models
- Documenting tuning decisions for audits
Module 10: Practical Tools and Frameworks - Introduction to Python for machine learning
- Installing and managing environments with virtualenv
- Jupyter Notebooks for exploratory development
- NumPy for numerical computing
- Pandas for data manipulation and analysis
- Matplotlib and Seaborn for visualisation
- Scikit-learn for model implementation
- Setting up pipelines for reproducible workflows
- XGBoost and LightGBM for gradient boosting
- CatBoost for categorical feature handling
- Statsmodels for statistical inference and regression
- Deployment tools: Flask and FastAPI basics
- Docker for containerised model environments
- MLflow for experiment tracking
- Integrating with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Using Google Colab for GPU access
- Git and version control for ML projects
- YAML and JSON for configuration management
- Best practices for code documentation and commenting
- Automating workflows with scripts and scheduling
Module 11: Model Deployment and Monitoring - From prototype to production: deployment pathways
- API design for model serving
- RESTful endpoints for model requests
- Input validation and sanitisation
- Error handling and graceful failure
- Latency optimisation and response time targets
- Scaling models for high traffic
- Model versioning and change tracking
- Canary releases and A/B testing
- Blue-green deployment strategies
- Monitoring model performance over time
- Detecting data drift and concept drift
- Setting up alerts for degradation
- Logging predictions and inputs for audits
- Automated retraining pipelines
- Scheduled vs trigger-based retraining
- Model registry and metadata management
- Security considerations: authentication and encryption
- Compliance with data protection regulations
- Documentation for deployment and support teams
Module 12: Advanced Topics in Deep Learning - Neural networks: biological inspiration and structure
- Perceptrons and activation functions (ReLU, sigmoid, tanh)
- Feedforward networks and hidden layers
- Backpropagation and gradient flow
- Weight initialisation strategies
- Batch normalisation for stable training
- Dropout for regularisation
- Optimisers: SGD, Adam, RMSprop
- Learning rate scheduling and cyclical rates
- Convolutional Neural Networks for image data
- Filter kernels, pooling, and feature maps
- Transfer learning with pre-trained models (ResNet, VGG)
- Fine-tuning strategies for new domains
- Recurrent Neural Networks for sequences
- LSTM and GRU for long-term dependencies
- Attention mechanisms and transformers
- BERT and language model applications
- Autoencoders for anomaly detection and denoising
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) overview
- Practical project: image classification with CNNs
Module 13: Natural Language Processing Applications - Text representation: bag-of-words, TF-IDF
- Word embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText
- Sentence and document embeddings
- Text classification: spam detection, sentiment analysis
- Named Entity Recognition for information extraction
- Topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing
- Text summarisation techniques: extractive and abstractive
- Machine translation fundamentals
- Chatbot design and intent classification
- Using spaCy and NLTK libraries
- Regular expressions for text cleaning
- Handling multilingual text data
- Emotion detection in social media
- Customer feedback analysis systems
- Legal document processing use cases
- Building search relevance models
- Keyword extraction and ontology creation
- Evaluating NLP model performance
- Deploying text models at scale
Module 14: Time Series Forecasting and Anomaly Detection - Understanding temporal data structure
- Trends, seasonality, and cyclic patterns
- Stationarity and differencing (ADF test)
- Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions
- AR, MA, ARMA, and ARIMA models
- SARIMA for seasonal data
- Prophet for intuitive forecasting
- Exponential smoothing methods (Holt-Winters)
- Vector autoregression for multivariate series
- Long Short-Term Memory networks for sequence prediction
- Handling missing data in time series
- Frequency alignment and resampling
- Rolling windows and expanding windows
- Anomaly detection using statistical thresholds
- Isolation Forests for outlier identification
- One-Class SVM for novelty detection
- Autoencoder-based anomaly scoring
- Real-time monitoring systems
- Alerting strategies for operational teams
- Validating forecasts with backtesting
Module 15: Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - Identifying bias in training data and labels
- Algorithmic fairness metrics: demographic parity, equal opportunity
- Disparate impact analysis
- Model transparency and explainability
- Right to explanation under GDPR and other regulations
- Data privacy and anonymisation techniques
- Differential privacy for sensitive data
- Consent and data use compliance
- Auditability of model decisions
- Creating AI guidelines and review boards
- Mitigating representation bias
- Monitoring for discriminatory outcomes
- Stakeholder engagement in AI development
- Documentation for model cards and datasheets
- Handling contested predictions responsibly
- Whistleblower protections and reporting channels
- Societal impact assessments
- Energy consumption and environmental cost of models
- Promoting inclusive design principles
- Future-proofing models against ethical risks
Module 16: Career Advancement and Real-World Implementation - Building a machine learning portfolio
- Documenting projects with clear problem-solution-impact
- Creating GitHub repositories with reproducible code
- Writing effective technical case studies
- Presenting models to executives and non-technical teams
- Negotiating data access and cross-functional collaboration
- Leading AI initiatives in non-AI organisations
- Upskilling teams and knowledge transfer
- Securing budget for AI projects
- Defining KPIs and measuring project success
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Agile methodologies for data science teams
- Integrating ML into existing workflows
- Change management for AI adoption
- Benchmarking performance against industry standards
- Networking in the data science community
- Using LinkedIn to showcase expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews and take-home challenges
- Salary negotiation with data-backed evidence
- Planning your next career move with confidence
Module 17: Capstone Project and Certification - Selecting a real-world problem for your capstone
- Data sourcing and ethical acquisition
- Defining success metrics and business impact
- End-to-end project planning and timeline setting
- Data cleaning and exploratory analysis
- Feature engineering and model selection
- Training and validating multiple models
- Hyperparameter tuning and performance refinement
- Model explainability and visual reporting
- Creating a professional project report
- Recording methodology and decisions
- Peer review and feedback integration
- Final presentation preparation
- Submission guidelines for certification
- How the assessment process works
- Receiving feedback from expert evaluators
- Revising based on feedback if needed
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to display and leverage your certification
- Lifetime access to update your capstone with new skills
- Understanding unsupervised learning objectives
- Use cases: customer segmentation, anomaly detection, grouping
- k-means clustering algorithm and centroid assignment
- Choosing the optimal number of clusters (Elbow Method)
- Silhouette score for cluster quality assessment
- Handling categorical variables with k-prototypes
- Hierarchical clustering and dendrogram interpretation
- Agglomerative vs divisive clustering approaches
- Distance metrics: Euclidean, Manhattan, cosine similarity
- Gaussian Mixture Models for probabilistic clustering
- Expectation-Maximisation algorithm basics
- DBSCAN for density-based clustering
- Identifying outliers as noise points
- Clustering validation using internal and external metrics
- Interpreting cluster profiles and naming segments
- Linking clusters to business actions and strategies
- Bisecting k-means and alternative variants
- Clustering high-dimensional data with PCA preprocessing
- Mini-batch k-means for large datasets
- Self-organising maps and neural network clustering
- Practical project: segmenting customer transaction data
Module 7: Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Extraction - The curse of dimensionality and its consequences
- Why reducing features improves model performance
- Principal Component Analysis theory and derivation
- Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and variance explained
- Selecting the number of principal components
- Visualising high-dimensional data in 2D or 3D
- Interpreting PCA loadings and component meaning
- Reconstructing data from reduced components
- Limitations of PCA and assumptions
- t-SNE for non-linear dimensionality reduction
- Perplexity parameter and tuning for clarity
- UMAP as a faster, scalable alternative to t-SNE
- Linear Discriminant Analysis for supervised reduction
- Kernel PCA for non-linear feature mapping
- Autoencoders using neural networks for compression
- Sparse and denoising autoencoder variants
- Non-negative matrix factorisation for topic extraction
- Applying dimensionality reduction to text and images
- Balancing interpretability and information retention
- Best practices for integrating reduced features into models
Module 8: Model Evaluation and Validation Techniques - Train, validation, and test set best practices
- Holdout method and time-based splits
- K-fold cross-validation for robust performance estimates
- Stratified k-fold for classification balance
- Leave-one-out and nested cross-validation
- Bootstrapping for uncertainty estimation
- Bias-variance trade-off and model complexity
- Learning curves to diagnose underfitting and overfitting
- Validation curves for hyperparameter insight
- Confidence intervals for metric stability
- McNemar's test for comparing model performance
- Cohen’s kappa for inter-rater agreement
- Precision-recall curves in imbalanced scenarios
- Cost matrices and business-impact weighted metrics
- Calibration curves for probability reliability
- Brier score for probabilistic forecast accuracy
- Multi-class evaluation using macro, micro, and weighted averages
- Regression diagnostics: residual plots and Q-Q plots
- Out-of-time validation for temporal robustness
- Walk-forward validation for time series
Module 9: Hyperparameter Tuning and Optimisation - Differentiating parameters vs hyperparameters
- Manual tuning and intuition-based adjustment
- Grid search for exhaustive parameter combinations
- Random search for efficient exploration
- Bayesian optimisation using Gaussian processes
- Tree-structured Parzen Estimators (TPE)
- Optimisation with cross-validation integration
- Early stopping in iterative training processes
- Automated ML libraries like Optuna and Hyperopt
- Setting search spaces and constraints
- Multi-objective tuning for accuracy and speed
- Warm starting and transfer tuning
- Parallelisation for faster optimisation
- Logging and tracking tuning experiments
- Reproducibility of tuned models
- Deployment-ready configurations
- Hyperparameter importance analysis
- Scaling tuning to large datasets
- Best practices for maintaining tuned models
- Documenting tuning decisions for audits
Module 10: Practical Tools and Frameworks - Introduction to Python for machine learning
- Installing and managing environments with virtualenv
- Jupyter Notebooks for exploratory development
- NumPy for numerical computing
- Pandas for data manipulation and analysis
- Matplotlib and Seaborn for visualisation
- Scikit-learn for model implementation
- Setting up pipelines for reproducible workflows
- XGBoost and LightGBM for gradient boosting
- CatBoost for categorical feature handling
- Statsmodels for statistical inference and regression
- Deployment tools: Flask and FastAPI basics
- Docker for containerised model environments
- MLflow for experiment tracking
- Integrating with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Using Google Colab for GPU access
- Git and version control for ML projects
- YAML and JSON for configuration management
- Best practices for code documentation and commenting
- Automating workflows with scripts and scheduling
Module 11: Model Deployment and Monitoring - From prototype to production: deployment pathways
- API design for model serving
- RESTful endpoints for model requests
- Input validation and sanitisation
- Error handling and graceful failure
- Latency optimisation and response time targets
- Scaling models for high traffic
- Model versioning and change tracking
- Canary releases and A/B testing
- Blue-green deployment strategies
- Monitoring model performance over time
- Detecting data drift and concept drift
- Setting up alerts for degradation
- Logging predictions and inputs for audits
- Automated retraining pipelines
- Scheduled vs trigger-based retraining
- Model registry and metadata management
- Security considerations: authentication and encryption
- Compliance with data protection regulations
- Documentation for deployment and support teams
Module 12: Advanced Topics in Deep Learning - Neural networks: biological inspiration and structure
- Perceptrons and activation functions (ReLU, sigmoid, tanh)
- Feedforward networks and hidden layers
- Backpropagation and gradient flow
- Weight initialisation strategies
- Batch normalisation for stable training
- Dropout for regularisation
- Optimisers: SGD, Adam, RMSprop
- Learning rate scheduling and cyclical rates
- Convolutional Neural Networks for image data
- Filter kernels, pooling, and feature maps
- Transfer learning with pre-trained models (ResNet, VGG)
- Fine-tuning strategies for new domains
- Recurrent Neural Networks for sequences
- LSTM and GRU for long-term dependencies
- Attention mechanisms and transformers
- BERT and language model applications
- Autoencoders for anomaly detection and denoising
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) overview
- Practical project: image classification with CNNs
Module 13: Natural Language Processing Applications - Text representation: bag-of-words, TF-IDF
- Word embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText
- Sentence and document embeddings
- Text classification: spam detection, sentiment analysis
- Named Entity Recognition for information extraction
- Topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing
- Text summarisation techniques: extractive and abstractive
- Machine translation fundamentals
- Chatbot design and intent classification
- Using spaCy and NLTK libraries
- Regular expressions for text cleaning
- Handling multilingual text data
- Emotion detection in social media
- Customer feedback analysis systems
- Legal document processing use cases
- Building search relevance models
- Keyword extraction and ontology creation
- Evaluating NLP model performance
- Deploying text models at scale
Module 14: Time Series Forecasting and Anomaly Detection - Understanding temporal data structure
- Trends, seasonality, and cyclic patterns
- Stationarity and differencing (ADF test)
- Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions
- AR, MA, ARMA, and ARIMA models
- SARIMA for seasonal data
- Prophet for intuitive forecasting
- Exponential smoothing methods (Holt-Winters)
- Vector autoregression for multivariate series
- Long Short-Term Memory networks for sequence prediction
- Handling missing data in time series
- Frequency alignment and resampling
- Rolling windows and expanding windows
- Anomaly detection using statistical thresholds
- Isolation Forests for outlier identification
- One-Class SVM for novelty detection
- Autoencoder-based anomaly scoring
- Real-time monitoring systems
- Alerting strategies for operational teams
- Validating forecasts with backtesting
Module 15: Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - Identifying bias in training data and labels
- Algorithmic fairness metrics: demographic parity, equal opportunity
- Disparate impact analysis
- Model transparency and explainability
- Right to explanation under GDPR and other regulations
- Data privacy and anonymisation techniques
- Differential privacy for sensitive data
- Consent and data use compliance
- Auditability of model decisions
- Creating AI guidelines and review boards
- Mitigating representation bias
- Monitoring for discriminatory outcomes
- Stakeholder engagement in AI development
- Documentation for model cards and datasheets
- Handling contested predictions responsibly
- Whistleblower protections and reporting channels
- Societal impact assessments
- Energy consumption and environmental cost of models
- Promoting inclusive design principles
- Future-proofing models against ethical risks
Module 16: Career Advancement and Real-World Implementation - Building a machine learning portfolio
- Documenting projects with clear problem-solution-impact
- Creating GitHub repositories with reproducible code
- Writing effective technical case studies
- Presenting models to executives and non-technical teams
- Negotiating data access and cross-functional collaboration
- Leading AI initiatives in non-AI organisations
- Upskilling teams and knowledge transfer
- Securing budget for AI projects
- Defining KPIs and measuring project success
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Agile methodologies for data science teams
- Integrating ML into existing workflows
- Change management for AI adoption
- Benchmarking performance against industry standards
- Networking in the data science community
- Using LinkedIn to showcase expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews and take-home challenges
- Salary negotiation with data-backed evidence
- Planning your next career move with confidence
Module 17: Capstone Project and Certification - Selecting a real-world problem for your capstone
- Data sourcing and ethical acquisition
- Defining success metrics and business impact
- End-to-end project planning and timeline setting
- Data cleaning and exploratory analysis
- Feature engineering and model selection
- Training and validating multiple models
- Hyperparameter tuning and performance refinement
- Model explainability and visual reporting
- Creating a professional project report
- Recording methodology and decisions
- Peer review and feedback integration
- Final presentation preparation
- Submission guidelines for certification
- How the assessment process works
- Receiving feedback from expert evaluators
- Revising based on feedback if needed
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to display and leverage your certification
- Lifetime access to update your capstone with new skills
- Train, validation, and test set best practices
- Holdout method and time-based splits
- K-fold cross-validation for robust performance estimates
- Stratified k-fold for classification balance
- Leave-one-out and nested cross-validation
- Bootstrapping for uncertainty estimation
- Bias-variance trade-off and model complexity
- Learning curves to diagnose underfitting and overfitting
- Validation curves for hyperparameter insight
- Confidence intervals for metric stability
- McNemar's test for comparing model performance
- Cohen’s kappa for inter-rater agreement
- Precision-recall curves in imbalanced scenarios
- Cost matrices and business-impact weighted metrics
- Calibration curves for probability reliability
- Brier score for probabilistic forecast accuracy
- Multi-class evaluation using macro, micro, and weighted averages
- Regression diagnostics: residual plots and Q-Q plots
- Out-of-time validation for temporal robustness
- Walk-forward validation for time series
Module 9: Hyperparameter Tuning and Optimisation - Differentiating parameters vs hyperparameters
- Manual tuning and intuition-based adjustment
- Grid search for exhaustive parameter combinations
- Random search for efficient exploration
- Bayesian optimisation using Gaussian processes
- Tree-structured Parzen Estimators (TPE)
- Optimisation with cross-validation integration
- Early stopping in iterative training processes
- Automated ML libraries like Optuna and Hyperopt
- Setting search spaces and constraints
- Multi-objective tuning for accuracy and speed
- Warm starting and transfer tuning
- Parallelisation for faster optimisation
- Logging and tracking tuning experiments
- Reproducibility of tuned models
- Deployment-ready configurations
- Hyperparameter importance analysis
- Scaling tuning to large datasets
- Best practices for maintaining tuned models
- Documenting tuning decisions for audits
Module 10: Practical Tools and Frameworks - Introduction to Python for machine learning
- Installing and managing environments with virtualenv
- Jupyter Notebooks for exploratory development
- NumPy for numerical computing
- Pandas for data manipulation and analysis
- Matplotlib and Seaborn for visualisation
- Scikit-learn for model implementation
- Setting up pipelines for reproducible workflows
- XGBoost and LightGBM for gradient boosting
- CatBoost for categorical feature handling
- Statsmodels for statistical inference and regression
- Deployment tools: Flask and FastAPI basics
- Docker for containerised model environments
- MLflow for experiment tracking
- Integrating with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Using Google Colab for GPU access
- Git and version control for ML projects
- YAML and JSON for configuration management
- Best practices for code documentation and commenting
- Automating workflows with scripts and scheduling
Module 11: Model Deployment and Monitoring - From prototype to production: deployment pathways
- API design for model serving
- RESTful endpoints for model requests
- Input validation and sanitisation
- Error handling and graceful failure
- Latency optimisation and response time targets
- Scaling models for high traffic
- Model versioning and change tracking
- Canary releases and A/B testing
- Blue-green deployment strategies
- Monitoring model performance over time
- Detecting data drift and concept drift
- Setting up alerts for degradation
- Logging predictions and inputs for audits
- Automated retraining pipelines
- Scheduled vs trigger-based retraining
- Model registry and metadata management
- Security considerations: authentication and encryption
- Compliance with data protection regulations
- Documentation for deployment and support teams
Module 12: Advanced Topics in Deep Learning - Neural networks: biological inspiration and structure
- Perceptrons and activation functions (ReLU, sigmoid, tanh)
- Feedforward networks and hidden layers
- Backpropagation and gradient flow
- Weight initialisation strategies
- Batch normalisation for stable training
- Dropout for regularisation
- Optimisers: SGD, Adam, RMSprop
- Learning rate scheduling and cyclical rates
- Convolutional Neural Networks for image data
- Filter kernels, pooling, and feature maps
- Transfer learning with pre-trained models (ResNet, VGG)
- Fine-tuning strategies for new domains
- Recurrent Neural Networks for sequences
- LSTM and GRU for long-term dependencies
- Attention mechanisms and transformers
- BERT and language model applications
- Autoencoders for anomaly detection and denoising
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) overview
- Practical project: image classification with CNNs
Module 13: Natural Language Processing Applications - Text representation: bag-of-words, TF-IDF
- Word embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText
- Sentence and document embeddings
- Text classification: spam detection, sentiment analysis
- Named Entity Recognition for information extraction
- Topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing
- Text summarisation techniques: extractive and abstractive
- Machine translation fundamentals
- Chatbot design and intent classification
- Using spaCy and NLTK libraries
- Regular expressions for text cleaning
- Handling multilingual text data
- Emotion detection in social media
- Customer feedback analysis systems
- Legal document processing use cases
- Building search relevance models
- Keyword extraction and ontology creation
- Evaluating NLP model performance
- Deploying text models at scale
Module 14: Time Series Forecasting and Anomaly Detection - Understanding temporal data structure
- Trends, seasonality, and cyclic patterns
- Stationarity and differencing (ADF test)
- Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions
- AR, MA, ARMA, and ARIMA models
- SARIMA for seasonal data
- Prophet for intuitive forecasting
- Exponential smoothing methods (Holt-Winters)
- Vector autoregression for multivariate series
- Long Short-Term Memory networks for sequence prediction
- Handling missing data in time series
- Frequency alignment and resampling
- Rolling windows and expanding windows
- Anomaly detection using statistical thresholds
- Isolation Forests for outlier identification
- One-Class SVM for novelty detection
- Autoencoder-based anomaly scoring
- Real-time monitoring systems
- Alerting strategies for operational teams
- Validating forecasts with backtesting
Module 15: Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - Identifying bias in training data and labels
- Algorithmic fairness metrics: demographic parity, equal opportunity
- Disparate impact analysis
- Model transparency and explainability
- Right to explanation under GDPR and other regulations
- Data privacy and anonymisation techniques
- Differential privacy for sensitive data
- Consent and data use compliance
- Auditability of model decisions
- Creating AI guidelines and review boards
- Mitigating representation bias
- Monitoring for discriminatory outcomes
- Stakeholder engagement in AI development
- Documentation for model cards and datasheets
- Handling contested predictions responsibly
- Whistleblower protections and reporting channels
- Societal impact assessments
- Energy consumption and environmental cost of models
- Promoting inclusive design principles
- Future-proofing models against ethical risks
Module 16: Career Advancement and Real-World Implementation - Building a machine learning portfolio
- Documenting projects with clear problem-solution-impact
- Creating GitHub repositories with reproducible code
- Writing effective technical case studies
- Presenting models to executives and non-technical teams
- Negotiating data access and cross-functional collaboration
- Leading AI initiatives in non-AI organisations
- Upskilling teams and knowledge transfer
- Securing budget for AI projects
- Defining KPIs and measuring project success
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Agile methodologies for data science teams
- Integrating ML into existing workflows
- Change management for AI adoption
- Benchmarking performance against industry standards
- Networking in the data science community
- Using LinkedIn to showcase expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews and take-home challenges
- Salary negotiation with data-backed evidence
- Planning your next career move with confidence
Module 17: Capstone Project and Certification - Selecting a real-world problem for your capstone
- Data sourcing and ethical acquisition
- Defining success metrics and business impact
- End-to-end project planning and timeline setting
- Data cleaning and exploratory analysis
- Feature engineering and model selection
- Training and validating multiple models
- Hyperparameter tuning and performance refinement
- Model explainability and visual reporting
- Creating a professional project report
- Recording methodology and decisions
- Peer review and feedback integration
- Final presentation preparation
- Submission guidelines for certification
- How the assessment process works
- Receiving feedback from expert evaluators
- Revising based on feedback if needed
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to display and leverage your certification
- Lifetime access to update your capstone with new skills
- Introduction to Python for machine learning
- Installing and managing environments with virtualenv
- Jupyter Notebooks for exploratory development
- NumPy for numerical computing
- Pandas for data manipulation and analysis
- Matplotlib and Seaborn for visualisation
- Scikit-learn for model implementation
- Setting up pipelines for reproducible workflows
- XGBoost and LightGBM for gradient boosting
- CatBoost for categorical feature handling
- Statsmodels for statistical inference and regression
- Deployment tools: Flask and FastAPI basics
- Docker for containerised model environments
- MLflow for experiment tracking
- Integrating with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Using Google Colab for GPU access
- Git and version control for ML projects
- YAML and JSON for configuration management
- Best practices for code documentation and commenting
- Automating workflows with scripts and scheduling
Module 11: Model Deployment and Monitoring - From prototype to production: deployment pathways
- API design for model serving
- RESTful endpoints for model requests
- Input validation and sanitisation
- Error handling and graceful failure
- Latency optimisation and response time targets
- Scaling models for high traffic
- Model versioning and change tracking
- Canary releases and A/B testing
- Blue-green deployment strategies
- Monitoring model performance over time
- Detecting data drift and concept drift
- Setting up alerts for degradation
- Logging predictions and inputs for audits
- Automated retraining pipelines
- Scheduled vs trigger-based retraining
- Model registry and metadata management
- Security considerations: authentication and encryption
- Compliance with data protection regulations
- Documentation for deployment and support teams
Module 12: Advanced Topics in Deep Learning - Neural networks: biological inspiration and structure
- Perceptrons and activation functions (ReLU, sigmoid, tanh)
- Feedforward networks and hidden layers
- Backpropagation and gradient flow
- Weight initialisation strategies
- Batch normalisation for stable training
- Dropout for regularisation
- Optimisers: SGD, Adam, RMSprop
- Learning rate scheduling and cyclical rates
- Convolutional Neural Networks for image data
- Filter kernels, pooling, and feature maps
- Transfer learning with pre-trained models (ResNet, VGG)
- Fine-tuning strategies for new domains
- Recurrent Neural Networks for sequences
- LSTM and GRU for long-term dependencies
- Attention mechanisms and transformers
- BERT and language model applications
- Autoencoders for anomaly detection and denoising
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) overview
- Practical project: image classification with CNNs
Module 13: Natural Language Processing Applications - Text representation: bag-of-words, TF-IDF
- Word embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText
- Sentence and document embeddings
- Text classification: spam detection, sentiment analysis
- Named Entity Recognition for information extraction
- Topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing
- Text summarisation techniques: extractive and abstractive
- Machine translation fundamentals
- Chatbot design and intent classification
- Using spaCy and NLTK libraries
- Regular expressions for text cleaning
- Handling multilingual text data
- Emotion detection in social media
- Customer feedback analysis systems
- Legal document processing use cases
- Building search relevance models
- Keyword extraction and ontology creation
- Evaluating NLP model performance
- Deploying text models at scale
Module 14: Time Series Forecasting and Anomaly Detection - Understanding temporal data structure
- Trends, seasonality, and cyclic patterns
- Stationarity and differencing (ADF test)
- Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions
- AR, MA, ARMA, and ARIMA models
- SARIMA for seasonal data
- Prophet for intuitive forecasting
- Exponential smoothing methods (Holt-Winters)
- Vector autoregression for multivariate series
- Long Short-Term Memory networks for sequence prediction
- Handling missing data in time series
- Frequency alignment and resampling
- Rolling windows and expanding windows
- Anomaly detection using statistical thresholds
- Isolation Forests for outlier identification
- One-Class SVM for novelty detection
- Autoencoder-based anomaly scoring
- Real-time monitoring systems
- Alerting strategies for operational teams
- Validating forecasts with backtesting
Module 15: Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - Identifying bias in training data and labels
- Algorithmic fairness metrics: demographic parity, equal opportunity
- Disparate impact analysis
- Model transparency and explainability
- Right to explanation under GDPR and other regulations
- Data privacy and anonymisation techniques
- Differential privacy for sensitive data
- Consent and data use compliance
- Auditability of model decisions
- Creating AI guidelines and review boards
- Mitigating representation bias
- Monitoring for discriminatory outcomes
- Stakeholder engagement in AI development
- Documentation for model cards and datasheets
- Handling contested predictions responsibly
- Whistleblower protections and reporting channels
- Societal impact assessments
- Energy consumption and environmental cost of models
- Promoting inclusive design principles
- Future-proofing models against ethical risks
Module 16: Career Advancement and Real-World Implementation - Building a machine learning portfolio
- Documenting projects with clear problem-solution-impact
- Creating GitHub repositories with reproducible code
- Writing effective technical case studies
- Presenting models to executives and non-technical teams
- Negotiating data access and cross-functional collaboration
- Leading AI initiatives in non-AI organisations
- Upskilling teams and knowledge transfer
- Securing budget for AI projects
- Defining KPIs and measuring project success
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Agile methodologies for data science teams
- Integrating ML into existing workflows
- Change management for AI adoption
- Benchmarking performance against industry standards
- Networking in the data science community
- Using LinkedIn to showcase expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews and take-home challenges
- Salary negotiation with data-backed evidence
- Planning your next career move with confidence
Module 17: Capstone Project and Certification - Selecting a real-world problem for your capstone
- Data sourcing and ethical acquisition
- Defining success metrics and business impact
- End-to-end project planning and timeline setting
- Data cleaning and exploratory analysis
- Feature engineering and model selection
- Training and validating multiple models
- Hyperparameter tuning and performance refinement
- Model explainability and visual reporting
- Creating a professional project report
- Recording methodology and decisions
- Peer review and feedback integration
- Final presentation preparation
- Submission guidelines for certification
- How the assessment process works
- Receiving feedback from expert evaluators
- Revising based on feedback if needed
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to display and leverage your certification
- Lifetime access to update your capstone with new skills
- Neural networks: biological inspiration and structure
- Perceptrons and activation functions (ReLU, sigmoid, tanh)
- Feedforward networks and hidden layers
- Backpropagation and gradient flow
- Weight initialisation strategies
- Batch normalisation for stable training
- Dropout for regularisation
- Optimisers: SGD, Adam, RMSprop
- Learning rate scheduling and cyclical rates
- Convolutional Neural Networks for image data
- Filter kernels, pooling, and feature maps
- Transfer learning with pre-trained models (ResNet, VGG)
- Fine-tuning strategies for new domains
- Recurrent Neural Networks for sequences
- LSTM and GRU for long-term dependencies
- Attention mechanisms and transformers
- BERT and language model applications
- Autoencoders for anomaly detection and denoising
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) overview
- Practical project: image classification with CNNs
Module 13: Natural Language Processing Applications - Text representation: bag-of-words, TF-IDF
- Word embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText
- Sentence and document embeddings
- Text classification: spam detection, sentiment analysis
- Named Entity Recognition for information extraction
- Topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing
- Text summarisation techniques: extractive and abstractive
- Machine translation fundamentals
- Chatbot design and intent classification
- Using spaCy and NLTK libraries
- Regular expressions for text cleaning
- Handling multilingual text data
- Emotion detection in social media
- Customer feedback analysis systems
- Legal document processing use cases
- Building search relevance models
- Keyword extraction and ontology creation
- Evaluating NLP model performance
- Deploying text models at scale
Module 14: Time Series Forecasting and Anomaly Detection - Understanding temporal data structure
- Trends, seasonality, and cyclic patterns
- Stationarity and differencing (ADF test)
- Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions
- AR, MA, ARMA, and ARIMA models
- SARIMA for seasonal data
- Prophet for intuitive forecasting
- Exponential smoothing methods (Holt-Winters)
- Vector autoregression for multivariate series
- Long Short-Term Memory networks for sequence prediction
- Handling missing data in time series
- Frequency alignment and resampling
- Rolling windows and expanding windows
- Anomaly detection using statistical thresholds
- Isolation Forests for outlier identification
- One-Class SVM for novelty detection
- Autoencoder-based anomaly scoring
- Real-time monitoring systems
- Alerting strategies for operational teams
- Validating forecasts with backtesting
Module 15: Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - Identifying bias in training data and labels
- Algorithmic fairness metrics: demographic parity, equal opportunity
- Disparate impact analysis
- Model transparency and explainability
- Right to explanation under GDPR and other regulations
- Data privacy and anonymisation techniques
- Differential privacy for sensitive data
- Consent and data use compliance
- Auditability of model decisions
- Creating AI guidelines and review boards
- Mitigating representation bias
- Monitoring for discriminatory outcomes
- Stakeholder engagement in AI development
- Documentation for model cards and datasheets
- Handling contested predictions responsibly
- Whistleblower protections and reporting channels
- Societal impact assessments
- Energy consumption and environmental cost of models
- Promoting inclusive design principles
- Future-proofing models against ethical risks
Module 16: Career Advancement and Real-World Implementation - Building a machine learning portfolio
- Documenting projects with clear problem-solution-impact
- Creating GitHub repositories with reproducible code
- Writing effective technical case studies
- Presenting models to executives and non-technical teams
- Negotiating data access and cross-functional collaboration
- Leading AI initiatives in non-AI organisations
- Upskilling teams and knowledge transfer
- Securing budget for AI projects
- Defining KPIs and measuring project success
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Agile methodologies for data science teams
- Integrating ML into existing workflows
- Change management for AI adoption
- Benchmarking performance against industry standards
- Networking in the data science community
- Using LinkedIn to showcase expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews and take-home challenges
- Salary negotiation with data-backed evidence
- Planning your next career move with confidence
Module 17: Capstone Project and Certification - Selecting a real-world problem for your capstone
- Data sourcing and ethical acquisition
- Defining success metrics and business impact
- End-to-end project planning and timeline setting
- Data cleaning and exploratory analysis
- Feature engineering and model selection
- Training and validating multiple models
- Hyperparameter tuning and performance refinement
- Model explainability and visual reporting
- Creating a professional project report
- Recording methodology and decisions
- Peer review and feedback integration
- Final presentation preparation
- Submission guidelines for certification
- How the assessment process works
- Receiving feedback from expert evaluators
- Revising based on feedback if needed
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to display and leverage your certification
- Lifetime access to update your capstone with new skills
- Understanding temporal data structure
- Trends, seasonality, and cyclic patterns
- Stationarity and differencing (ADF test)
- Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions
- AR, MA, ARMA, and ARIMA models
- SARIMA for seasonal data
- Prophet for intuitive forecasting
- Exponential smoothing methods (Holt-Winters)
- Vector autoregression for multivariate series
- Long Short-Term Memory networks for sequence prediction
- Handling missing data in time series
- Frequency alignment and resampling
- Rolling windows and expanding windows
- Anomaly detection using statistical thresholds
- Isolation Forests for outlier identification
- One-Class SVM for novelty detection
- Autoencoder-based anomaly scoring
- Real-time monitoring systems
- Alerting strategies for operational teams
- Validating forecasts with backtesting
Module 15: Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - Identifying bias in training data and labels
- Algorithmic fairness metrics: demographic parity, equal opportunity
- Disparate impact analysis
- Model transparency and explainability
- Right to explanation under GDPR and other regulations
- Data privacy and anonymisation techniques
- Differential privacy for sensitive data
- Consent and data use compliance
- Auditability of model decisions
- Creating AI guidelines and review boards
- Mitigating representation bias
- Monitoring for discriminatory outcomes
- Stakeholder engagement in AI development
- Documentation for model cards and datasheets
- Handling contested predictions responsibly
- Whistleblower protections and reporting channels
- Societal impact assessments
- Energy consumption and environmental cost of models
- Promoting inclusive design principles
- Future-proofing models against ethical risks
Module 16: Career Advancement and Real-World Implementation - Building a machine learning portfolio
- Documenting projects with clear problem-solution-impact
- Creating GitHub repositories with reproducible code
- Writing effective technical case studies
- Presenting models to executives and non-technical teams
- Negotiating data access and cross-functional collaboration
- Leading AI initiatives in non-AI organisations
- Upskilling teams and knowledge transfer
- Securing budget for AI projects
- Defining KPIs and measuring project success
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Agile methodologies for data science teams
- Integrating ML into existing workflows
- Change management for AI adoption
- Benchmarking performance against industry standards
- Networking in the data science community
- Using LinkedIn to showcase expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews and take-home challenges
- Salary negotiation with data-backed evidence
- Planning your next career move with confidence
Module 17: Capstone Project and Certification - Selecting a real-world problem for your capstone
- Data sourcing and ethical acquisition
- Defining success metrics and business impact
- End-to-end project planning and timeline setting
- Data cleaning and exploratory analysis
- Feature engineering and model selection
- Training and validating multiple models
- Hyperparameter tuning and performance refinement
- Model explainability and visual reporting
- Creating a professional project report
- Recording methodology and decisions
- Peer review and feedback integration
- Final presentation preparation
- Submission guidelines for certification
- How the assessment process works
- Receiving feedback from expert evaluators
- Revising based on feedback if needed
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to display and leverage your certification
- Lifetime access to update your capstone with new skills
- Building a machine learning portfolio
- Documenting projects with clear problem-solution-impact
- Creating GitHub repositories with reproducible code
- Writing effective technical case studies
- Presenting models to executives and non-technical teams
- Negotiating data access and cross-functional collaboration
- Leading AI initiatives in non-AI organisations
- Upskilling teams and knowledge transfer
- Securing budget for AI projects
- Defining KPIs and measuring project success
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Agile methodologies for data science teams
- Integrating ML into existing workflows
- Change management for AI adoption
- Benchmarking performance against industry standards
- Networking in the data science community
- Using LinkedIn to showcase expertise
- Preparing for technical interviews and take-home challenges
- Salary negotiation with data-backed evidence
- Planning your next career move with confidence