About This Course

This Machine Learning with R course dives into the basics of machine learning using an approachable, and well-known, programming language. You'll learn about Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning, look into how Statistical Modeling relates to Machine Learning, and do a comparison of each.

Look at real-life examples of Machine learning and how it affects society in ways you may not have guessed!

Explore many algorithms and models:

• Popular algorithms: Classification, Regression, Clustering, and Dimensional Reduction.

• Popular models: Train/Test Split, Root Mean Squared Error, and Random Forests.

Get ready to do more learning than your machine!

COURSE SYLLABUS

Module 1 - Machine Learning vs Statistical Modeling & Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning

• Machine Learning Languages, Types, and Examples 

• Machine Learning vs Statistical Modelling

• Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning 

• Supervised Learning Classification 

• Unsupervised Learning 

Module 2 - Supervised Learning I

• K-Nearest Neighbors 

• Decision Trees 

• Random Forests

• Reliability of Random Forests 

• Advantages & Disadvantages of Decision Trees 

 Module 3 - Supervised Learning II

• Regression Algorithms 

• Model Evaluation 

• Model Evaluation: Overfitting & Underfitting

• Understanding Different Evaluation Models 

 Module 4 - Unsupervised Learning

• K-Means Clustering plus Advantages & Disadvantages 

• Hierarchical Clustering plus Advantages & Disadvantages 

• Measuring the Distances Between Clusters - Single Linkage Clustering 

• Measuring the Distances Between Clusters - Algorithms for Hierarchy Clustering

• Density-Based Clustering 

Module 5 - Dimensionality Reduction & Collaborative Filtering

• Dimensionality Reduction: Feature Extraction & Selection 

• Collaborative Filtering & Its Challenges 

REQUIREMENTS

RECOMMENDED SKILLS PRIOR TO TAKING THIS COURSE

• You have to do hands-on lab for this course. The tool that you use for hands-on is called Jupyter and it is one of the most popular tools used by data scientists. If you are not familiar with Jupyter, I would recommend that you take our free Data Science Hands-on with Open Source Tools.
• This hands-on lab requires that you have working knowledge of R programming language as it applies to data analytics. If you don't feel you have sufficient skill in Data Analysis with R, I recommend you take Data Analysis with R courses.