Part of the Machine Learning JourneyNewJourneySupervised Learning in Python
Train models that learn from labelled examples. Split, fit, predict and score with scikit-learn, see every model on a chart, and finish by shipping a penguin species classifier.
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Syllabus
This section is part of the Machine Learning Journey. The full syllabus has more sections: click any preview below to view it on the Journey page.
- Section 1Data and Plots60 lessons
- Section 2Statistics for ML64 lessons
Section 3
Supervised Learning
Start sectionStartTrain real models with scikit-learn: split, fit, predict and measure. k-NN, linear and logistic regression, trees, forests and boosting, honest evaluation with cross-validation, and pipelines, ending with an end-to-end penguin project.Your First Model
5 lessons520Nearest Neighbors
5 lessons520Linear Regression
5 lessons520Logistic Regression
5 lessons520Measuring Classifiers
6 lessons625Decision Trees
5 lessons520Overfitting
5 lessons520Cross-Validation
4 lessons415Ensembles
4 lessons415Pipelines
5 lessons520Project: Penguin Species
5 lessons525Final Challenges
4 lessons420- Section 4Unsupervised Learning51 lessons
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- The whole scikit-learn workflow in four lines you will use in every project:
train_test_split,fit,predictandscore. Then each model you meet is one new line, not a new way of working. - See what a model decides. Decision boundaries colour the plane, residual plots show what a line misses, ROC curves show what a threshold trades away. Every lesson has a chart, and yours appears in the Plots tab as you run.
- The models that do most real work: k-nearest neighbors, linear and logistic regression, decision trees, random forests and gradient boosting, plus pipelines that scale, encode and fill gaps without leaking the test set.
- Honest scores. Confusion matrices, precision and recall, imbalanced classes, overfitting, validation sets and cross-validation, so you can tell a model that works from one that memorized its homework.
Frequently asked questions about supervised learning
What is supervised learning?
Supervised learning trains a model on examples that come with the right answer, called labels. Each row has features (a penguin's bill length, flipper length, island) and a label (its species). The model learns the link between them, then predicts the label for new rows. It is supervised because the labels play the teacher: the model is corrected against them while it learns.
What is the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning?
What are classification and regression?
They are the two kinds of supervised learning. Classification predicts a category, such as spam or not spam, or one of three wine types. Regression predicts a number, such as tomorrow's bike rentals or a patient's disease progression. Many models do both: there is a k-NN, a decision tree and a random forest for each, and the course uses both versions.
Which supervised learning algorithms does the course cover?
StandardScaler, OneHotEncoder, SimpleImputer, pipelines, cross_val_score and GridSearchCV.What should I know before starting?
How do I know if my model is any good?
You test it on rows it never saw during training and compare it with a simple baseline, like always guessing the most common class. Accuracy alone can lie when one class is rare, so the course also teaches the confusion matrix, precision, recall, F1 and ROC curves, and cross-validation to check the score was not luck.
How long does the supervised learning section take?
58 lessons, about 10 hours at your own pace: a few weeks at half an hour a day. Each lesson is one idea and one task, and the section ends with the penguin project and four final challenges.
Is it free?
Yes. The lessons, the charts, the AI hints and the certificate for the section are free. A free account works through a few lessons a day, and Pro removes the daily limit.
