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Continue the journey to data and machine learning, with this course from Cloud Academy.

In previous courses, the core principles and foundations of Data and Machine Learning have been covered and best practices explained. 

This course gives an informative introduction to deep learning and introducing neural networks.

This course is made up of 12 expertly instructed lectures along with 4 exercises and their respective solutions.

Please note: the Pima Indians Diabetes dataset can be found at this GitHub repository or at Kaggle page mentioned throughout the course.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the core principles of deep learning
  • Be able to execute all factors of the framework of neural nets

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Transcript

Hey guys, welcome back. In this video, I will review exercise three in section four. And this exercise asks you to compare your results on the Pima Indian data set classification, with the results presented in a notebook on the Kaggle website. In this website, they use different machine learning techniques and they built a model to predict the same outcome you are trying to predict. So the question you're asked is are neural networks better or worse in this particular case? 

And you can try comparing your results also with the few models from psychic learn for example, a support vector machine or a random forest, and on the exact same train/test split. So I'm not going to tell you if the performance is worse or better, that's for you to find out. Also, we ask you to try restricting your features to only four features like in the suggested notebook. And how does the model performance change? You can test this for your model, the neural network, but also for the models like the random forest and the support vector machine. So, try to do the exercise first, and then feel free to watch the solution in the next video. Good luck.

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I am a Data Science consultant and trainer. With Catalit I help companies acquire skills and knowledge in data science and harness machine learning and deep learning to reach their goals. With Data Weekends I train people in machine learning, deep learning and big data analytics. I served as lead instructor in Data Science at General Assembly and The Data Incubator and I was Chief Data Officer and co-­founder at Spire, a Y-Combinator-­backed startup that invented the first consumer wearable device capable of continuously tracking respiration and activity. I earned a joint PhD in biophysics at University of Padua and Université de Paris VI and graduated from Singularity University summer program of 2011.