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Model Building and Evaluation for Data Scientists

by Daniel Stern

Building and evaluating machine learning (ML) models is daunting, but correctly engineered models can provide millions of dollars in value. In this course, you'll learn to build and evaluate these tools, leveraging existing data science knowledge.

What you'll learn

Building and evaluating machine learning (ML) models unlocks a myriad of rewarding business opportunities for organizations that are able to do so effectively. But what skills do data scientists, with a strong understanding of statistics, data warehousing, and data analysis, need to master before they can create an effective ML model?

In this course, Model Building and Evaluation for Data Scientists, you’ll learn a solid foundation of model building and evaluation fundamentals, with the core skills needed to begin building and deploying your own models.

First, you’ll learn to match different kinds of datasets and business success requirements to the model type that is best suited to make inferences from that data or achieve that goal.

Next, you’ll explore advanced data processing and preparation techniques, such as feature engineering and continuous data pipelines, which can all be used to improve model performance and outcomes.

Finally, you’ll discover how to evaluate models, understand evaluation metrics, and adjust data and model training pipelines to optimize performance.

When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills of ML model building and evaluation needed to train and evaluate models of several different types and improve their performance, and the knowledge to continue learning more ML skills.

About the author

Daniel Stern is a coder, web developer and programming enthusiast from Toronto, Ontario, where he works as a freelance developer and designer. Daniel has been working with web technologies since the days of the dial-up, and is especially keen on JavaScript, CSS, Angular, React and TypeScript. Over the course of his work as an open-source developer, he's created many community-standards web tools including Angular Audio and Range.CSS. His tool, Range.CSS, was featured in a guest article on CSS-T... more

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