Online Specialized Studies Program in Machine and Deep Learning

Overview

Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing define the current state of the art of Artificial Intelligence. These technologies, which are a form of data mining and data analysis, continuously learn from the provided information. They recognize hidden patterns that often provide dramatic competitive advantages at relatively low costs to the organization. These technologies are creating significant improvements in the way we work, interact, and live to produce efficiencies never imagined before. These methods are being applied in a diverse range of industries including sales, marketing, advertising, health care, criminal justice, finance customer support, and cool new industries like self-driving cars and highly efficient automated homes. Organizations today use these methods not only to improve their core business operations but also for developing new business models.

Program Benefits

• Learn from industry experts how to apply the art and science of machine and deep learning to deliver new insights and improve the competitiveness of your business
• Explain what kinds of problems are best suited for machine learning and which are best for deep learning
• Understand and apply machine and deep learning software tools used in industry to solve business problems
• Explain a variety of learning algorithms and how they are applied to understand differences between unsupervised, semi-supervised, supervised, and reinforcement processes
• Learn methodologies and tools to apply algorithms using a wide range of real data types including structured and unstructured text, video, and images from internal or external sources (e.g. scraped web data) and evaluate their performance
• Determine related software toolkits to consider and how to integrate them into existing data workflows
• Utilize basic building blocks, general principles, and cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to design machine learning algorithms
• Learn the tools and techniques of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its use in the analysis of human-generated content
• Understand common pitfalls and challenges using neural networks and deep learning tools
• Understand what hardware or virtual machines are needed for deep learning
• Explain the difference between machine and deep learning versus traditional statistical data analysis techniques

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