Probability / Statistics - The Foundations of Machine Learning

Description

A code-oriented interactive course that will help you build a solid foundation that is essential to excel in all areas of computer science, specifically data science and machine learning. We will apply all concepts through code and focus on the concepts that are more useful for data science, machine learning, and other areas of computer science.

The objective of this course is to give you a solid foundation needed to excel in all areas of computer science-specifically data science and machine learning. The issue is that most of the probability and statistics courses are too theory-oriented. They get tangled in the math without discussing the importance of applications. Applications are always given secondary importance. In this course, we take a code-oriented approach. We apply all concepts through code. In fact, we skip over all the useless theory that isn't relevant to computer science. Instead, we focus on the concepts that are more useful for data science, machine learning, and other areas of computer science. For instance, many probability courses skip over Bayesian inference. We will get to this immensely important concept rather quickly and give it due attention as it is widely thought of as the future of analysis! This way, you get to learn the most important concepts in this subject in the shortest amount of time possible without having to deal with the details of the less relevant topics. Once you have developed an intuition of the important stuff, you can then learn the latest and greatest models even on your own! All the resources for this course are available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Probability-Statistics---The-Foundations-of-Machine-Learning

Learn all necessary concepts in stats and probability
Learn important concepts for data science and/or machine learning
Understand distributions and their importance
Learn about Entropy, which is the foundation of all machine learning
Introduction to Bayesian Inference
Learn to apply concepts through code

This course is designed for beginner ML and data science developers who need a solid foundation, for developers curious about data science and machine learning, for people looking to find out why probability is the foundation of all modern machine learning, or for developers who want to know how to harness the power of big data.

In this course, we take a code-oriented approach. We will apply all concepts through code that are more useful for data science, machine learning, and other areas of computer science.

A practical approach towards understanding the core concepts of probability and statistics * Focuses on the applications of these important mathematical concepts in data science, machine learning, and other areas * Understand why probability is the foundation of all modern machine learning

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Probability-Statistics---The-Foundations-of-Machine-Learning

Dr. Mohammad Nauman has a PhD in computer science and a PostDoc from the Max Planck Institute for software systems. He has been programming since early 2000 and has worked with many different languages, tools, and platforms. He holds extensive research experience with many state-of-the-art models. His research in Android security has led to some major shifts in the Android permission model.
He loves teaching and the most important reason he teaches online is to make sure that maximum people can learn through his content. Hope you have fun learning with him!

1. Diving in with Code

2. Measures of Spread

3. Applications and Rules for Probability

4. Counting

5. Random Variables - Rationale and Applications

6. Visualization in Intuition Building

7. Applications to the Real World