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I Tried 50 Machine Learning Courses: These are the BEST 5
Free/low cost and high quality.
If you ask the internet which course to take to learn machine learning, you’ll get the same answer every time: Andrew Ng’s course on Coursera.
And look, they’re not wrong. It’s a phenomenal course. But, if your goal is to actually work as a machine learning engineer, that course teaches you maybe 30% of what you need.
Production machine learning is core to my daily work at Amazon, and I’ve spent a lot of time coaching people into ML careers. So I went through over 50 machine learning courses to find the ones that actually teach you what you need to know.
Today I’m sharing my top five so you don’t waste time on courses that leave you with half the skills you actually need on the job.
METHODOLOGY
Before we get into it, here’s how I evaluated these courses.
First, I only included courses that teach machine learning broadly, not courses that only cover one topic like just tensorflow or just computer vision. I also only focused on courses that were financially accessible — no expensive bootcamps or academic programs.
I tracked everything in a spreadsheet and ranked the top five across four categories:
