A4 Machine Learning - CLOSED

All the content of the program is very complete and useful. The program covered supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning Models. The weekly examinations are very useful to recap on those important concepts. The capstone project help students to use... Read More all the concepts learned as part of the program and help to work developing query code from scratch

This school gives out great information to their students. All students have many resources . The counselors are great and patient with there students. There are many interactions with teachers for support. I have learned many new skill that can be used... Read More at any company I work for.

I have taken machine learning foundation course from udacity.
My experience was mixed with below pros and cons-
Pros-
1. Makes the fundamental solids
2. deadlines are not so stricts.
3. you will be able to learn about basics quickly

Cons:
1. Need to brush up... Read More the math basics
2. Mentor support is very poor.

I have three Nanodegrees from Udacity, namely Machine Learning, Android Developer and Self Driving Car Engineer and am also an Udacity Tech Scholarship recipient. Udacity is a good e-learning platform but it is quite expensive for the services and course... Read More content it provides. Out of the three I found the Android one to be the best designed. The Machine Learning nanodegree , when I finished it, left me feeling extremely dissatisfied. The mentors couldn't answer questions, the course itself was very haphazardly designed and contained a lot of dead links to forums and resources which were not available and not to mention course videos which had a glaring lack of continuity.
Coming to the Self Driving Car Nanodegree which I felt was the most advanced and challenging online courses that I had ever done. It required you to do a lot of research on your own especially the last two projects but that is not to say that it wasn't a fun experience because it so was.
In conclusion though, I would like to reinforce the point I made in the beginning which is that Udacity as a platform is very expensive for students and even for professionals because only extremely and I mean extremely few if any can make you Job ready regardless of what they proclaim and on top of that their prices have been skyrocketing. For ex - when I did the Machine Learning Nanodegree, it cost me $285(in India) for 3 months, that same course costs $285 per month now i.e. the price has tripled in less than a year with very little added value. Also, this apllies to all their courses. They do have the best support compared to Udmey, Coursera and edX but that still doesn't justify the exorbitant prices that they charge while reducing services that they used to provide.
Therefore, I would say, do your research well before investing in any Nanodegree.

Udacity Nanodegree helped in learning core principles of machine learning (ML) like supervied and unsupervised algorithm .
Which built a strong foundation for solving complex problems in technology industry.
And also built confidence in me to crack interviews... Read More which helped me in getting desired roles.

I enrolled for the Udacity machine learning nanodegree course in 3rd year of my engineering. So, my career in Machine learning started from that time itself. The course included basic Python to Machine learning libraries like Bumpy, Pandas and a lot more... Read More hands-on projects. The best part which I liked in my Udacity course is the Mentors. They are really very helpful and brilliant. They were available all the time to solve my query. I used to ask questions right from basic and they used to explain all the questions by giving their best. So, the final capstone project was Boston Housing project which was a lot interesting and I used all the concepts which I learned from the course. And finally I had overall idea about Machine learning. Then in 3rd year, in my college we had to make a mini project. At that time I decided to make a book recommendation system using machine learning. By the completion of the project I got more confidence and eager to learn more about it. Later in final year of engineering I planned to make a smart eye for visually disabled people using Deep Learning and for this particular project I won Best Major project award from my department. And as everyone knows the importance of Udacity degree. I got a campus placement from my college. But I wanted a job in data science. And off campus I got a job in deep learning only. I would like to thanks Udacity for giving such good source to students and also encouraging them to study and get scholarship. Oh, I didn't mention about the scholarship which I got from Udacity after the completion of the course. This offer was only for college students. And I am one of those student who got student scholarship from Udacity.
Thank you.
Cheers!

I have sampled courses from almost all major MOOC sites including Coursera, Udemy, edX, Khan Academy. Udacity stands out for me due to the reviews I got for the work that I submitted. The reviews included very important links that really helped me look... Read More at the concept from different angels and the reviewers were very helpful and communicative. I can honestly say that I learned more from them than I have learned from any MOOC video lecture

It's has been a great deal for me to take this job as I started it while I was still a student and I needed to manage my time between studying for the college, studying for the students, and keep an eye on each student progress which is a lot of work... Read More to do but I was doing this with a lot of joy as I can see that I'm really doing something worse and make myself more valuable .

Pros:
1. Not just theory like other courses. ML Concepts were delivered in a much easy to digest way, animated, interactive and with lab setup to apply it practically to highly impactful subjects.
2. Complex mathematical formulas are explained bit by bit.... Read More I am now able to play with existing complex mathematical formulas and make new ones.
3. Mentor support is awesome. You ask questions and they explain it very nicely with added supporting materials.
4. Assignment reviewers are fantastic. They check your assignment in a very detailed way much better than how a offline teacher checks your assignments.
5. Their courses are time bounded, so you always take it seriously to complete the course in time.
6. Materials are also available for download for offline viewing.
7. Mentor guides you on which courses you should select and in which sequence. This was really helpful for me as there many courses on Udacity and all are fantastic.
8. Comparing with other online courses, I see Udacity a clear winner in the way they deliver the materials. They also cover all the important concepts.
9. Their projects and assignments are very interesting and aligned to real life problems.
10. Udacity also provide job opportunities aligned to your nano degree courses you have opted for.

Cons:
1. The courses are some what costly but you get more than what you pay for.
2. The best performer of capstone project in every nano degree courses should be awarded with scholarships to enroll for other nano degree Udacity courses.

I am referring to the Machine Learning Nanodegree, as I have done this course.
This nanodegree is worth in several ways:

The nanodegree gives you a complete view of today’s MachineLearning and AI knowledge. The course starts with the basics of ML like Linear,... Read More Logistic etc models. And teaches everything in Python. And it moves to advanced ML -> Neural nets and Reinforcement Learning with hands-on work. And final is a complete Capstone projects that helps you create your own Problem statement, decide approach, decide methodology, accuracy matrix and finally the Model that you'll be using.
The nanodegree provides many hands-on projects. When you are finished with the program, you have built a handful of projects: This gives you confidence that you can actually apply your newly acquired skills in a meaningful way,
The projects are blueprints for your own projects later on (if you want to develop any models for a client, just take one of the projects from the nano-degree course and change it to according to your liking),
These projects look neat in your cv.
Keep in mind, even though a nanodegree is a solid foundation, it is up to you to make something out of it. There is far more to learn about Machine Learning and AI.

After finishing the nano-degree, do project work. Start with small kaggle competitions, and scale up later. This is really helpful