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Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Machine Learning in Python

Data science techniques for pattern recognition, data mining, k-means clustering, and hierarchical clustering, and KDE.
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Data science techniques for pattern recognition
Platform: Udemy
Video: 7h 54m
Language: English
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About the course

Cluster analysis is a staple of unsupervised machine learning and data science.
It is very useful for data mining and big data because it automatically finds patterns in the data, without the need for labels, unlike supervised machine learning.
In a real-world environment, you can imagine that a robot or an artificial intelligence won’t always have access to the optimal answer, or maybe there isn’t an optimal correct answer. You’d want that robot to be able to explore the world on its own, and learn things just by looking for patterns.
Do you ever wonder how we get the data that we use in our supervised machine learning algorithms?
We always seem to have a nice CSV or a table, complete with Xs and corresponding Ys.
If you haven’t been involved in acquiring data yourself, you might not have thought about this, but someone has to make this data!
Those “Y”s have to come from somewhere, and a lot of the time that involves manual labor.
Sometimes, you don’t have access to this kind of information or it is infeasible or costly to acquire.
But you still want to have some idea of the structure of the data. If you’re doing data analytics automating pattern recognition in your data would be invaluable.
This is where unsupervised machine learning comes into play.
In this course we are first going to talk about clustering. This is where instead of training on labels, we try to create our own labels! We’ll do this by grouping together data that looks alike.
There are 2 methods of clustering we’ll talk about: k-means clustering and hierarchical clustering.
Next, because in machine learning we like to talk about probability distributions, we’ll go into Gaussian mixture models and kernel density estimation, where we talk about how to “learn” the probability distribution of a set of data.
One interesting fact is that under certain conditions, Gaussian mixture models and k-means clustering are exactly the same! We’ll prove how this is the case.
All the algorithms we’ll talk about in this course are staples in machine learning and data science, so if you want to know how to automatically find patterns in your data with data mining and pattern extraction, without needing someone to put in manual work to label that data, then this course is for you.
All the materials for this course are FREE. You can download and install Python, Numpy, and Scipy with simple commands on Windows, Linux, or Mac.

This course focuses on “how to build and understand”, not just “how to use”. Anyone can learn to use an API in 15 minutes after reading some documentation. It’s not about “remembering facts”, it’s about “seeing for yourself” via experimentation. It will teach you how to visualize what’s happening in the model internally. If you want more than just a superficial look at machine learning models, this course is for you.

“If you can’t implement it, you don’t understand it”
•Or as the great physicist Richard Feynman said: “What I cannot create, I do not understand”.
•My courses are the ONLY courses where you will learn how to implement machine learning algorithms from scratch
•Other courses will teach you how to plug in your data into a library, but do you really need help with 3 lines of code?
•After doing the same thing with 10 datasets, you realize you didn’t learn 10 things. You learned 1 thing, and just repeated the same 3 lines of code 10 times…

Suggested Prerequisites:
•matrix addition, multiplication
•probability
•Python coding: if/else, loops, lists, dicts, sets
•Numpy coding: matrix and vector operations, loading a CSV file

WHAT ORDER SHOULD I TAKE YOUR COURSES IN?:
•Check out the lecture “Machine Learning and AI Prerequisite Roadmap” (available in the FAQ of any of my courses, including the free Numpy course)

What can you learn from this course?

✓ Understand the regular K-Means algorithm
✓ Understand and enumerate the disadvantages of K-Means Clustering
✓ Understand the soft or fuzzy K-Means Clustering algorithm
✓ Implement Soft K-Means Clustering in Code
✓ Understand Hierarchical Clustering
✓ Explain algorithmically how Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering works
✓ Apply Scipy’s Hierarchical Clustering library to data
✓ Understand how to read a dendrogram
✓ Understand the different distance metrics used in clustering
✓ Understand the difference between single linkage, complete linkage, Ward linkage, and UPGMA
✓ Understand the Gaussian mixture model and how to use it for density estimation
✓ Write a GMM in Python code
✓ Explain when GMM is equivalent to K-Means Clustering
✓ Explain the expectation-maximization algorithm
✓ Understand how GMM overcomes some disadvantages of K-Means
✓ Understand the Singular Covariance problem and how to fix it

What you need to start the course?

• Know how to code in Python and Numpy
• Install Numpy and Scipy
• Matrix arithmetic, probability

Who is this course is made for?

• Students and professionals interested in machine learning and data science
• People who want an introduction to unsupervised machine learning and cluster analysis
• People who want to know how to write their own clustering code
• Professionals interested in data mining big data sets to look for patterns automatically

Are there coupons or discounts for Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Machine Learning in Python ? What is the current price?

The course costs $29.99. And currently there is a 770 discount on the original price of the course, which was $129.99. So you save $100 if you enroll the course now.
The average price is $20.1 of 1,582 Python courses. So this course is 49% more expensive than the average Python course on Udemy.

Will I be refunded if I'm not satisfied with the Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Machine Learning in Python course?

YES, Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Machine Learning in Python has a 30-day money back guarantee. The 30-day refund policy is designed to allow students to study without risk.

Are there any financial aid for this course?

Currently we could not find a scholarship for the Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Machine Learning in Python course, but there is a $100 discount from the original price ($129.99). So the current price is just $29.99.

Who will teach this course? Can I trust Lazy Programmer Team?

Lazy Programmer Team has created 17 courses that got 51,335 reviews which are generally positive. Lazy Programmer Team has taught 199,625 students and received a 4.7 average review out of 51,335 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Lazy Programmer Team is an instructor that you can trust.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Engineer
Today, I spend most of my time as an artificial intelligence and machine learning engineer with a focus on deep learning, although I have also been known as a data scientist, big data engineer, and full stack software engineer.
I received my first masters degree over a decade ago in computer engineering with a specialization in machine learning and pattern recognition. I received my second masters degree in statistics with applications to financial engineering.
Experience includes online advertising and digital media as both a data scientist (optimizing click and conversion rates) and big data engineer (building data processing pipelines). Some big data technologies I frequently use are Hadoop, Pig, Hive, MapReduce, and Spark.
I’ve created deep learning models to predict click-through rate and user behavior, as well as for image and signal processing and modeling text.
My work in recommendation systems has applied Reinforcement Learning and Collaborative Filtering, and we validated the results using A/B testing.
I have taught undergraduate and graduate students in data science, statistics, machine learning, algorithms, calculus, computer graphics, and physics for students attending universities such as Columbia University, NYU, Hunter College, and The New School.
Multiple businesses have benefitted from my web programming expertise. I do all the backend (server), frontend (HTML/JS/CSS), and operations/deployment work. Some of the technologies I’ve used are: Python, Ruby/Rails, PHP, Bootstrap, jQuery (Javascript), Backbone, and Angular. For storage/databases I’ve used MySQL, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, and more.
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Platform: Udemy
Video: 7h 54m
Language: English
Next start: On Demand

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