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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Understanding the World Through Data

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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Become a data explorer – learn how to leverage data and basic machine learning algorithms to understand the world.

Syllabus

  • Python programming and the Colab notebook programming environment
  • Dependent and independent variables
  • Coming up with relationships between data using linear and polynomial regression models
  • Recognizing how data is distributed
  • How to observe noise in distributions and when to ignore it
  • Categorize data into groups with classification models
  • And more!

Taught by

Aleksander Madry, Ana Bell, and Silvina Honono Wachman

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