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Data Science and Machine Learning Interview Handbook

This hands-on course prepares you for ML and data science interviews through real-world data handling, core algorithms, deployment strategies, and ethical, production-ready AI practices.

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46 Lessons
10h
Updated 2 months ago
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  • An understanding of how to clean, transform, and prepare structured, unstructured, time series, and image data, mirroring the messy datasets used in interviews
  • Working knowledge of building and evaluating supervised and unsupervised models, including regression, classification, clustering, and dimensionality reduction techniques
  • Hands-on experience applying cross-validation, regularization techniques (Lasso, Ridge), hyperparameter tuning, and ensemble methods to boost model performance under interview pressure
  • The ability to understand and navigate the deployment life cycle to demonstrate job-ready, industry-relevant ML skills
  • Familiarity with fairness, bias mitigation, and data privacy considerations in machine learning

Learning Roadmap

46 Lessons14 Challenges

2.

Handling Diverse Real-World Data

Handling Diverse Real-World Data

Explore data types, processing techniques, and collection methods essential for data science.

3.

Preparing and Transforming Data for Machine Learning Pipelines

Preparing and Transforming Data for Machine Learning Pipelines

5 Lessons

5 Lessons

Master essential data cleaning, transformation, and feature engineering techniques for effective machine learning.

4.

Understanding Supervised Learning Algorithms

Understanding Supervised Learning Algorithms

8 Lessons

8 Lessons

Explore supervised learning techniques, model evaluation, and real-world applications in data science.

5.

Understanding Unsupervised Learning Algorithms

Understanding Unsupervised Learning Algorithms

5 Lessons

5 Lessons

Explore unsupervised learning techniques to find patterns in unlabeled data.

6.

Advanced Machine Learning Concepts

Advanced Machine Learning Concepts

5 Lessons

5 Lessons

Master essential techniques for model optimization and evaluation in machine learning.

7.

ML Applications and Deployment in the Real World

ML Applications and Deployment in the Real World

6 Lessons

6 Lessons

Explore machine learning applications across health care, finance, retail, and autonomous vehicles, focusing on model deployment and monitoring.

8.

Responsible Machine Learning: Ethics, Fairness, and Privacy

Responsible Machine Learning: Ethics, Fairness, and Privacy

4 Lessons

4 Lessons

Explore fairness, bias, and ethics in machine learning.

9.

ML Interview Preparation and Case Studies

ML Interview Preparation and Case Studies

5 Lessons

5 Lessons

Master machine learning pipeline design, case studies, and interview preparation strategies.
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ABOUT THIS COURSE
This course equips you with practical skills to ace data science and machine learning interviews. You’ll begin with real-world datasets, including structured, unstructured, time series, text, and images, and learn key techniques for collecting and querying data using APIs, SQL, and web scraping. Next, you’ll cover data preprocessing workflows: cleaning, normalization, handling missing data, feature engineering, and managing outliers. You’ll then apply supervised learning methods like regression, decision trees, SVM, Naive Bayes, and unsupervised techniques such as k-means, hierarchical clustering, and PCA. The course also covers advanced topics, including ensemble methods, regularization, hyperparameter tuning, and the fundamentals of deep learning. You’ll explore real-world applications in health care, finance, and autonomous systems. Finally, you’ll practice with case studies, model deployment strategies, fairness and privacy in AI, and mock interview practice to make you industry-ready.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ria Cheruvu

I am an Al SW Architect at Intel and have a master's degree in data science from Harvard University. I’m an instructor of data science curricula.

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