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Wonderful! Thank you Andrew! Now alongside Udacity, another set of classes with certificates - does anyone know if they hold any value to prospective employers

• sumitgt 9y ago
  > Last I've heard was that a recent PhD in ML was a must. Nope, personally know a lot of people who work in Machine Learning roles at the big 5 companies without a PhD. Although specifically they did not have any of these courses on their resume. They did however have various ML projects which these courses can lead to.
• marrone12 9y ago
  I manage a data science team and the courses aren't valuable in and of themselves. I need to see that you've actually used the principles from them on interesting projects that we could utilize for our company -- projects either in your own work or pet projects that you've done completely yourself.
• eanzenberg 9y ago
  > does anyone know if they hold any value to prospective employers? Sure they do. It's not a free pass but it is very very very helpful to have a strong foundation in classic ML and statistics. > Last I've heard was that a recent PhD in ML was a must. Not really unless you are looking to jump into a pure research lab. Generally you need publications in the field.
  • edanm 9y ago
    "Sure they do. It's not a free pass but it is very very very helpful to have a strong foundation in classic ML and statistics." I think the poster was asking specifically about the credentials of the course, not taking the course itself. And I'd argue that it's probably not that interesting to most prospective employers, since they'll care more about things you've actually accomplished (example projects, etc).