JS
Jul 17, 2018
This is one hell of an inspiring course that demystified the difficult concepts and math behind PCA. Excellent instructors in imparting the these knowledge with easy-to-understand illustrations.
WS
Jul 7, 2021
Now i feel confident about pursuing machine learning courses in the future as I have learned most of the mathematics which will be helpful in building the base for machine learning, data science.
By Gabriel C
•Apr 24, 2020
Quality of the course is great, but I would question whether it belongs in this specialization given the huge jump in expected knowledge from the first two courses to this one. Relied alot on the forums and YouTube to gain sufficient knowledge to complete this course.
By Omar A B
•May 5, 2023
the course handles important topics but unfortunately NOT well covered in the videos, the instructor assumes previous knowledge of the topic I guess! The MultiVariable Calc course was amazing from start to end I expected at least the same quality :(
By Ashish P
•Oct 22, 2020
Instructor has done lot of hard work. However, the course is little rigorous. If it is possible, I request the team to upload few more videos for this module. Nevertheless, thank you so much. I have still learned a lot from this course.
By helen l
•Apr 28, 2020
The content is decent but there are some bugs in the programming assignments. Particularly the last two programming assignments. The auto-grader for the second to the last assignment passes in some input that is not of the correct form.
By V K
•Jul 23, 2020
The course content was very good,but the assignments were harder as knowledge of python libraries was required. It would be very helpful if you change the assignments as I feel the course should rather be about math than python
By YUCHEN O
•May 2, 2023
The first three weeks courses are ok and can follow, lecture in last week are very difficult to understand as the teacher skipped some of the steps and straightaway gave the derivation and lots of bugs in assignments.
By Pierre
•Apr 10, 2020
Positive points: At the end of the module, you get a good understanding on how PCA works. It fulfill its objective.
Negative points: The assignements are poorly directed, the material is not always clearly explained.
By Alexander Z
•Sep 14, 2018
Good Course, but
Too less examples to do the quizes on the first run.
Programming assignments are not clearly stated, so you need unnecessary much time to succeed.
I liked the Linear Algebra & Multivariate Modul more!
By devansh v
•Apr 3, 2020
The course is Satisfactory.The content is Good,no doubt about it,but many topics(both mathematical and computational) were unknown and coding assignments of Jupyter notebooks of this course(PCA) are very Buggy
By Norah
•Aug 25, 2020
Kinda complicated but doable. The stuff do not monitor the discussion forums unfortunately. Without Susan's detailed & well informative replies I won't be able to complete the course. Big THANK YOU to Susan.
By Marina P
•Sep 6, 2019
The course is interesting, but some of the quizzes were not done very well. After the first 2 parts of this course, which were just amazing, this one seems kind of worse, although by itself its not that bad.
By Ahmed A
•Jun 19, 2022
They need to slow down while explaining concepts. The instructor assumes the viewers know each and every step. The other two Mathematics for Machine Learning courses were much better compared to this.
By Deleted A
•Jan 5, 2021
I was expecting this course to connect with the previous two but it turned out to be self contained. Jupyter notebooks contain inconsistent comments and assignment steps. Certain tasks were not clear.
By Rosie H
•Apr 1, 2021
The jump in difficulty for the final two modules was too hard going from the previous two courses in my opinion. also I would have liked more practical examples rather than being directed to reading.
By Chad K
•Jul 9, 2020
Difficult course. They need more formal tutorials to help with the gap between the videos and the tests and projects. I found it very helpful to buy the instructor's textbook and read along in it.
By Cécile L
•Apr 15, 2019
Amazing topic, great teachers and nice videos, but assignments can be slightly frustrating and some aspects (matrix calculus, derivatives, etc.) are really expedited... Still worth your time!!!
By Nicholas K
•Apr 28, 2018
It's a shame. There's lots of good material and I learned a lot. But a staggering amount of time was wasted figuring out gaps in the instructions - portions felt more like hazing than teaching.
By Paryant
•Dec 3, 2020
Instructor made a good attempt to cover these complex topic. However, these topics should be supported with more examples and also provide more intuitive examples as in previous 2 courses.
By Adrian C
•Sep 22, 2019
The derivatiion of the PCA in the last week can be broken into 2 weeks with different programming assignments to get a closer and more confident understanding of the PCA method.
By Jean D D S
•Sep 1, 2019
I would ask the lecturer to go on more detail on the explanations and do (more) examples.
The lecturer tends to skip a few steps during calculations and demonstrations.
By David N
•May 5, 2021
Difficult course even having completed the two courses that precede it. Some concepts introduced here as assumed knowledge that were not covered in the prior courses.
By DD
•Jul 22, 2020
The week 2 code was more difficult than the other weeks. The forums are no longer attended by the professors. The access to materials from IC is great.
By Wang Z
•Jul 8, 2018
The knowledge introduced in this course is really helpful. However, the programming assignments are very time consuming and not necessarily relevent
By Iurii S
•Mar 27, 2018
Decent explanations of PCA idea, but assignments do not provide a clear feedback of what is wrong with the implementation util you get it right.