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Machine Learning Foundations

Train, evaluate and ship your first machine learning models.

4.7(3,410)28.9K students8 lessons · 1h 51m

Last updated 15 Jun 2026, 00:00

Elena Fischer · Data Scientist, ex-Spotify
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About this course

A grounded introduction to machine learning that skips the hype. You'll train regression and classification models, learn why they overfit, and validate them properly, then take a model past the notebook stage.

What you'll learn

  • Tell supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning apart
  • Train and evaluate regression and classification models
  • Engineer features that actually improve model performance
  • Avoid overfitting with proper validation
  • Ship a trained model beyond a notebook

Curriculum

3 sections · 8 lessons · 1h 51m

  • Supervised vs unsupervised learning11m
  • Train/test splits and overfitting13m
  • Linear and logistic regression16m

Student reviews

Nate Kowalski

10 Sept 2025, 00:00

5.0

Clear, well-paced, and every concept builds on the last. Exactly what I needed.

Ngozi Umeh

14 Apr 2026, 00:00

4.0

Good structure, real examples, no filler. That's rare.

Ben Sorensen

19 May 2025, 00:00

5.0

I've taken a lot of courses on this topic. This one actually stuck.