Guide: Working environment Setup for Machine Learning

This short course is an essential guide for those who would like to start their first Machine Learning project, but they do not know where to start from or how to start.

Even if there are many Python or data science courses available for beginners, there is no course which teaches you how to set up your working environment for Machine Learning from scratch.

This essential guide will teach you step by step necessary skills which, in other courses, are not taught, because it is believed that the students should already know how to open a notebook, how to use it or how to read their dataset in their notebook.

Therefore, you are not required to have any basic Python skills. You are going to learn how to code in this course.

This course is divided into 12 sections. By the end of this course, you will know how to:

1. save a file in your desktop

2. save it on your Google Drive

3. open a Google Colab notebook

4. mount your Google Drive on your Google Colab notebook

5. import the pandas library in your notebook

6. read your dataset into a pandas data frame

7. navigate through your pandas data frame by using pandas.DataFrame functions

8. perform data cleaning by using regular expressions

9. download and upload your Google Colab notebook as a Python notebook file

You will also acquire basic Python knowledge: Python keywords, functions, objects, tuples, lists, regular expressions, user-defined functions

Why choose this course?

-The content is broken into bite-sized tutorials.

-The content is presented with animated videos.

-There are integrated Python tutorials, so you acquire Python knowledge and skills while attending the course.

-There are PDFs which explain in detail the content of each section.

-There is a quiz at the end of all sections which checks your knowledge and understanding.

-There is an assignment to apply the skills you are going to learn in the course.

Requirements

1. You must have your own Google account. If not, type How do I create a new Google Account on your internet browser and take the steps to open your account.

2. You must have your Google Drive open on your computer. Just type Drive Google on your internet browser and sign in with your credentials.

3. In this course you will be using the Google Colab notebook, so you would need to first sign into your Google account in order to use it.

Why Google Colab notebook?

Google colab notebook is ideal for beginners, since Python is already installed, and thus the learner avoids the hassle of installing Python in their desktop.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

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Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

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