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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mathematics for Machine Learning: Multivariate Calculus by Imperial College London

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    About the Course

    This course offers a brief introduction to the multivariate calculus required to build many common machine learning techniques. We start at the
    very beginning with a refresher on the “rise over run” formulation of a slope, before converting this to the formal definition of the gradient of a
    function. We then start to build up a set of tools for making calculus easier and faster. Next, we learn how to calculate vectors that point up hill
    on multidimensional surfaces and even put this into action using an interactive game. We take a look at how we can use calculus to build
    approximations to functions, as well as helping us to quantify how accurate we should expect those approximations to be. We...
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    DP

    Nov 26, 2018

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    Great course to develop some understanding and intuition about the basic concepts used in optimization. Last 2 weeks were a bit on a lower level of quality then the rest in my opinion but still great.

    JT

    Nov 13, 2018

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    Excellent course. I completed this course with no prior knowledge of multivariate calculus and was successful nonetheless. It was challenging and extremely interesting, informative, and well designed.

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    By Pritam D

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    Sep 13, 2020

    While the topics covered in the course are good, the depth and clarity with which each topic deserves to be explained, remains unfulfilled. The lectures are easy to understand, but sometimes you'll have to jump to other resources to get a better understanding of the topics covered. The difficulty of assignments is relatively very high, compared to their respective lectures.

    Moreover, I feel that categorizing this course as a "beginner" course is somewhat questionable, as a complete beginner will face a lot of hurdles, given the number of new topics introduced in each lecture, the succeeding (often difficult) assignment, and the brevity of explanation. This course is more of an intermediate level, and some prior experience of Multivariate Calculus is required. I personally had glazed over Multivarious Calculus during my undergraduate, and even with that background, the difficulty seemed frustrating. For me, other resources, such as 3blue1brown youtube videos and Grant's KhanAcademy videos were necessary to complete the course.

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    By Leandro C F

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    Mar 22, 2021

    I've took the first course about linear algebra and it was brilliant. Unfortunately I did not have the same impression on this course.

    The contents of the course is very important, but some topics were covered very quickly and superficially.

    I also noticed that many people liked the first instructor, but for me the fact that he emphasizes one in every four words annoyed my learning experience. I spent more time paying attention in the emphasis than in the contents.

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    By Harsh D

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    Jun 14, 2020

    After the first course of the series, I expected more out of this. Certainly, the course covers basics but there's a gap in between the weeks. May be it was done to ensure the course could be restricted to 6 weeks, but then again course 3 is just 4 weeks. Not sure what happened there, this one certainly requires restructuring.

    For Imperial College: If you would like to know what I am talking about, please go through the discussion forums.

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    By Paul F

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    May 10, 2020

    Towards the end, you see that the lecturers and the Team lost their motivation for a bit. Explanations are done very quickly and the exercises lack proper programming. The last one for example can't be passed if you write the functions in two different cells (as it is displayed in the workbook when you start), you need to copy them to one cell. This is really badly designed.

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    By Oliver K

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    Feb 1, 2020

    The first few weeks were a great introduction to derivatives, but the further it got the more the content seemed rushed and the exercises lazy. I will now go back and read secondary literature to really understand those parts, and not just calculate derivatives over and over. Samuel was a fantastic instructor though, kudos!

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    By Marcin

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    Aug 13, 2018

    It's one of the toughest things that I've done in my life. The content is really interesting and applicable, but at times you might get stuck with quizzes or assignments because there is not enough guidance given. All in all, I'd recommend this course to everyone working in analytics.

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    By Sam C

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    Apr 17, 2018

    A quick short introduction to multivariate calculus and few machine learning techniques, but without much detail mathematical proofs for some ideas. It's a maybe good introductory course for beginners of calculus. Not recommended for learns who seek for details of ideas.

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    By Kirill N

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    Aug 16, 2020

    Weeks 1-3 (4) were pretty nice; weeks 5 and 6 were terrible. The harder the topics, the less explanation was given, the pacing by the end was atrocious and course delves into statistical topics while it probably could've dedicated these weeks to other relevant topics.

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    By Khang “ P

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    Sep 22, 2021

    The last 2 modules have very promising content, yet the instructor did not do well enough. I found myself totally lost in the confusing explanation of David, although I've already have experience in Multivar Calc and take this course just as a refresher.

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    By Ginés M

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    Jul 1, 2024

    David Dye made the whole course much worse. Hard to understand sometimes due to not vocalizing properly, shows graphs without pointing in any way so the explanations are not clear, and then just says "thats pretty neat!" at the end.

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    By Joshua V R

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    Aug 26, 2022

    Weeks 5 and 6 could be greatly improved in terms of clarity and quality of the explanations. More solved examples would be very helpful and appreciated. On the other hand, weeks 1 to 4 met the expectations and were very ilustrating.

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    By Yi Z

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    Aug 3, 2018

    Such a easy course, if you totally a novice in multi-variables calculus, you could take this course, Whereas, if you are familiar with calculus, it will be quite easy for you.

    I hope more programming assignment about Machine Learning

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    By ZHANSHAOXUN

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    Nov 9, 2021

    the connection seemed poor between weekly targets. it was super easy at first and became very difficult at last, honestly i do not think this is designed for students with no relavant foundations in math or machine learning.

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    By Javad H

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    Dec 18, 2024

    It is not the best course I have seen, the previous course in this specialization was much more goal-oriented in this course, I had to use lots of other tools and searches to understand the topic

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    By Rob E

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    Aug 11, 2020

    The instructor for this course actually tried to explain the concepts, unlike the other two courses in this specialization. However, no one is available to answer questions.

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    By Shivam K

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    Jun 30, 2020

    I feel that the course was too fast paced. I had to constantly refer to many other website like khan academy and 3b1b. The course skipped many details and lacked intuition.

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    By pranshu s

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    Oct 17, 2020

    You will get some intuition of mathematics used in Machine Learning as well as there will be less fear in doing ML courses if you would complete this course.

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    By Alfred S

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    Jan 13, 2019

    Course would be prefect if there would not be technical issues with opening notebooks. It slows me down by 1 week. But content was really relevant to ML.

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    By Andrea E

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    Dec 29, 2024

    Poorly designed with abstract examples. Better get a textbook or find material online and learn it from there. I got nothing from this course.

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    By kumar s

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    Aug 9, 2020

    Overall average course. Not that much good as expected because of David Dye. He was teaching very poor in this course as compared to course-1.

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    By Zhonglu L

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    Apr 19, 2024

    I think the first teacher is better than the second one. The content by the second teacher can be more clear and go even deeper / analytical!

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    By TirupathiRao p

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    May 21, 2020

    Last 2 weeks completely diverged. Failed to converge. I wish content was more elaborate.First course of this specialization was far better.

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    By Deleted A

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    Dec 7, 2019

    first 4 weeks were good. Starting from week 5 course explanation was bad. Was required to watch other videos.

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