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About the Course

In this first course of the AI Product Management Specialization offered by Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, you will build a foundational understanding of what machine learning is, how it works and when and why it is applied. To successfully manage an AI team or product and work collaboratively with data scientists, software engineers, and customers you need to understand the basics of machine learning technology. This course provides a non-coding introduction to machine learning, with focus on the process of developing models, ML model evaluation and interpretation, and the intuition behind common ML and deep learning algorithms. The course will conclude with a hands-on project in which you will have a chance to train and optimize a machine learning model on a simple real-world problem. At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to: 1) Explain how machine learning works and the types of machine learning 2) Describe the challenges of modeling and strategies to overcome them 3) Identify the primary algorithms used for common ML tasks and their use cases 4) Explain deep learning and its strengths and challenges relative to other forms of machine learning 5) Implement best practices in evaluating and interpreting ML models...

Top reviews

KV

Jun 23, 2023

Great way to get started and introduced to concepts. Project work ensure it covers all the topics taught in the course. Great way to recap and apply concepts to play.

JE

Dec 16, 2023

I thought the course had a good pace and was informative. I should have took advantage of the discussion forums more to ask some questions. Doing the project brought even more questions.

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By Marie C

Aug 9, 2025

Extremely useful. It would be valuable to include guidance on using the essential tools, especially focusing on the most accessible options for students without technical experience. I gained valuable knowledge, and Jon Reifschneider provided clear examples while maintaining an encouraging teaching style. So I'm glad I followed this course and thank you :)

By Milan P

Dec 17, 2025

Great introduction to ML. I would have given it 5 starts but there were a couple slides missing compared to the video. Also, would have like to see actual examples and explain them to tie into the concepts. Examples meaning actual data and calculations for the different algorithms and techniques. Also discuss reasonable and necessary metric expectations.

By Doug G

Sep 10, 2025

Good course on the fundamentals, but it seems slightly dated now given the explosion of LLMs. The course barely spends a sentence or two talking about "transformers" for text processing (the foundation of LLMs), but that's all. It really could use an extra module or two now to get it more up-to-date.

By Mark R

Sep 18, 2025

The course was engaging. The assignment at the end seemed like a BIG leap, and it was made much harder with no-code tools like AutoML being really hard to use (I had to give up and find another no-code platform to complete the assignment on). Very glad I did the course.

By Michael G

Aug 26, 2022

Liked the course, since it is a profound introduction to the broad field of machine learning. When it comes to NNs and CNNs, I think the course focuses too much on mathemathical aspects and lacks a bit the an easy and intuitive explanation.

By Ritika S

Oct 17, 2022

Super useful course to familiarize yourself with the terminology and technical details of ML models. Not useful for learning how to manage the project, but super useful to understand the details of requirements to create a model.

By Yaron a

May 21, 2024

Oversll, very good course. I learned a lot. Instructor is clear and knowledgeable. Te course materials are a bit biased to the ML side and the deep learning is a bit basic. The time assigned to the project is too short .

By Jennifer C

Sep 16, 2025

The content of the course was very comprehensive and organized well. However, it would benefit from more anecdotes and real-world examples to keep the content engaging throughout the course.

By Andrei K

Mar 16, 2022

The training provides a good overview of ML concepts. At the same time pre-project data quality review and initial data analysis could have a more extensive coverage from my point of view

By Joele E

Dec 16, 2023

I thought the course had a good pace and was informative. I should have took advantage of the discussion forums more to ask some questions. Doing the project brought even more questions.

By CHAVARRIA C K

Nov 5, 2023

Not engaging. I'm sure the instructor is a technical genius however, I would suggest to refine teaching skills. All the courses are suitable for developers not Product Owners

By Tanya T

Dec 24, 2025

I think the course is a little but technical for product managers, I would expect more examples from the real life to be used in industry and less mathematical calculations

By Amgad B

Oct 7, 2023

good intro for machine learning, you will need to search and google lots of concepts to fully understand them so its gonna take more time to finish

By Candida G

Aug 20, 2023

It was a great learning. This course is perfectly curated for beginner who needs to understand the pros and cons of it.

By Sharmila S

Dec 4, 2022

I thoroughly enjoyed this introductory course to ML. It was a intensive introduction to various models and techniques.

By Elba A

Nov 22, 2024

well structured, ambitious content, applicability and mathematical methods must be thought through carefully

By Phillip C

Jan 9, 2024

I think the information should be better organised. Meaning, it should follow a more linear progression.

By Nikita F

Jan 8, 2024

The course is great. It does, however, need an update, as so much has happened over the past few years.

By Anthony P

Aug 20, 2025

Found some of the content a bit hard to follow, some more real world examples would help.

By Sudeepta S

Sep 13, 2023

Well arranged course following a sequential learning path.

By Astrinos

Dec 12, 2022

Very tough course. I don't think it's for beginner Level.

By Juhi K

Oct 13, 2024

Awesome course - great learning of the foundations of ML

By A V

Nov 21, 2023

Great course. a few more real exercise would improve it!

By Dawid P

Nov 14, 2022

Very good but also very technical. Refresh your math :-)

By Selly W

Nov 10, 2023

Well structured foundational course