Course description

Practical Data Science & Machine Learning Foundations is a hands-on, engineering-focused course designed to bridge the gap between raw data and predictive code. Students will master the complete data pipeline from cleaning messy, real-world datasets and engineering high-impact features to building, tuning, and evaluating classical machine learning models. 

Using industry-standard Python libraries like NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-Learn, this course equips students with the foundational skills needed to solve complex business problems with data-driven code.

What will i learn?

  • Clean and transform messy, real-world datasets.
  • Build and train supervised regression and classification models.
  • Optimize model accuracy via hyperparameter tuning.

Requirements

  • Strong Python Foundations (Loops, Dictionaries, Functions)
  • Basic Math Background (Algebra & Introductory Statistics)
  • Laptop with Python 3.10+ and VS Code/Jupyter installed

Frequently asked question

Absolutely. While machine learning is built on math, this course focuses heavily on practical application and engineering implementation. We teach you how to use industry-standard libraries (like Scikit-Learn) to build models effectively. Any essential mathematical concepts like how gradient descent works or how to read a confusion matrix will be explained visually and intuitively without burying you in dense, theoretical proofs.

This course covers the mandatory foundations of data science and "classical" machine learning, which deals primarily with structured, tabular data (like spreadsheets, databases, and CSVs) using algorithms like Linear Regression and Random Forests. The upcoming Deep Learning course builds on this foundation to handle unstructured data (like images, video, and natural text) using neural networks and PyTorch. You must master this course before moving to Deep Learning.

This is a project-first curriculum. You will not just watch slides; you will write Python code in every section. Throughout the course, you will work with messy, real-world datasets to solve practical engineering problems such as building a customer segmentation model, predicting house prices, and engineering features to detect fraudulent credit card transactions.

Samuel Asogbon

₦150000

₦200000

Lectures

16

Skill level

Advanced

Expiry period

3 Months

Certificate

Yes

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