Build Decision Trees, SVMs, and Artificial Neural Networks (Coursera)

This fourth and final course within the Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner (CAIP) professional certificate continues on from the previous course by introducing more, and in some cases, more advanced algorithms used in both machine learning and deep learning. As before, you'll build multiple models that can solve business problems, and you'll do so within a workflow.

Ultimately, this course concludes the technical exploration of the various machine learning algorithms and how they can be used to build problem-solving models.
What You Will Learn

- Train and evaluate decision trees and random forests for regression and classification.

- Train and evaluate support-vector machines (SVM) for regression and classification.

- Train and evaluate multi-layer perceptron (ML) artificial neural networks (ANN) for regression and classification.

- Train and evaluate convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN) for computer vision and natural language processing tasks.

Course 4 of 5 in the CertNexus Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner Professional Certificate.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Build Decision Trees and Random Forests

You've built machine learning models from fundamental linear regression and classification algorithms. These algorithms can get you pretty far in many scenarios, but they are not the only algorithms that can meet your needs. In this module, you'll build machine learning models from decision trees and random forests, two alternative approaches to solving regression and classification problems.

WEEK 2

Build Support-Vector Machines (SVM)

Another alternative approach to regression and classification comes in the form of support-vector machines (SVMs). In this module, you'll build SVMs that can do a good job of handling outliers and tackling high-dimensional data in an efficient manner.

WEEK 3

Build Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP)

All of the algorithms discussed thus far fall under the general umbrella of machine learning. While they are powerful and complex in their own right, the algorithms that make up the subdomain of deep learning—called artificial neural networks (ANNs)—are even more so. In this module, you'll build a fundamental version of an ANN called a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) that can tackle the same basic types of tasks (regression, classification, etc.), while being better suited to solving more complicated and data-rich problems.

WEEK 4

Build Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks (CNN/RNN)

Now that you've built MLP neural networks, you can incorporate them into two wider architectures: convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which excel at solving computer vision problems; and recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which are most often used to process natural languages.

WEEK 5

Apply What You've Learned

You'll work on a project in which you'll apply your knowledge of the material in this course to a practical scenario.