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A good intro to machine learning in finance. I does not goes very deep, but hat some useful exercises and practice with google cloud.
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Excellent! But, I am missing some of the prerequisites since I just wanted to take a chance and try things out, but feel like proceeding further might lead to some stumbling blocks.
By Harshit M
•Jun 12, 2020
No labs or quizzes for auditing students
By Guillermo B
•Aug 7, 2020
Very few real practical exercises.
By Atif H
•Jul 16, 2022
too basic.
By Egor D
•Jan 25, 2023
The overview of finance is fine, but the ML is instructed in a very basic and bad manner. The labs are just a torture. All you need is either copy-paste commands from the instruction or run all the cells in the notebook. No thinking, no sir. And in order to do these "assignments" they don't use coursera's local notebooks and grader, no. They use GCP, in incognito mode, and there are problems: 1. GCP's interface changed, so some of the labs' guidelines are not much relevant and you need to find stuff yourself.
2. For jupyter notebook, the education notebook itself is not the most time-consuming part. You will login to GCP, create notebook, wait ten minutes for it to be created (but GCP won't show it, you need to close the tab and relogin to GCP again to see "open jupyterlab"). And then, after 10 minutes you run and read all the cells for a minute. Yep, time management
3. Btw, GCP is in incognito mode. What if it forgets you right in the middle of "education" process? Say you do "git clone" or run the notebook and bum, nothing works, GCP asks you to re-login. Yea, boy, start all over: login, create notebook, wait for it to say "open jupyterlab", etc... Summary, the finance part seem good and clear. ML part is weak. Labs are just torture to waste of time and nerves. Questions they ask also are unclear and structured in a pattern matching manner of "words from lecture - question". One of the worst courses I've ever head. I hope they won't train Neural nets in SQL in the next ones (god bless)
By Steven K
•Dec 21, 2019
The required labs for passing are not uploaded and there is no support in the discussion forums. This means you can not effectively undertake this course without recreating the required cloud systems yourself.
Also, the content is massively outdated and uses an old version of tensor flow which is now deprecated. The course feels like its around 3 years old but only just been uploaded to coursera now.
Very poor experience in my humble opinion and I want my 2 hours of troubleshooting this back.
By Sarah M
•Jul 1, 2024
This course hasn't been updated so it's going to be frustrating and useless for any user. Even after going through the forum I couldn't get it to work. I emailed Coursera to fix this. I contacted them through their contact form and within the course. I'm taking this course seriously so Coursera should take their product offerings seriously and fix them. people have been complaining about this in this particular course for over a year now. Fix your course!
By Conor W
•Jan 21, 2020
A waste of time and money really. Appears to cobbled together from other courses. It doesnt flow, instead jumps around on random topics and none of them link up. It can jump from very basic concepts to suddenly covering complex topics in the in a 2 minute video. The "graded" exercises are pointless. Just following a series of (convoluted) steps and nothing is learned and nothing is actually graded. Dont waste you time with this.
By Allen S
•Aug 23, 2020
There could be some useful information in there but even with subtitles, the horrible audio quality makes it much too painful to wade through. I gave up and cancelled the course. I'm very disappointed as my cloud experience is entirely AWS and I was looking forward to learning about the Google Cloud alternative. How could a company as strong as Google produce such a staggeringly poor introduction to their platform?
By Oleksii Y
•Jun 25, 2024
Total disaster. There's no "AI Platform" in google cloud platform and you need to go there to do your labs. Don't buy it, please... Even if I downloaded the ipynb with !git command I still cannot open it in a colab enterprise platform. And, I don't like the millman, because his hands are uncontrollable and it is almost impossible to watch the videos because of it.
By Luiz P F
•Oct 22, 2020
There seems to much detail lacking in both ML and Trading aspects of the course. Moreover, the practice labs are not interactive and don't build up to add much to the content. There's not much exploration during labs either. Overall, a very poor introduction.
By Jodon K
•May 31, 2021
The lectures are good. The coursework is atrociously bad. It appears to be pulled from a bunch of unrelated courses on both ML and BigQuery. The lectures are worth a listen, but I didn't come away having learned anything about programming ML for Trading.
By liweipace
•Mar 12, 2020
It not available in China whatsoever. The course works fine. Yet the Qwiklabs are dumb. Even if you log in with a VPN, google will still block you because of geographic location, which is China. You should mention that at the info page or fix the problem.
By Amos E
•Jun 27, 2021
The finance presentations were well-done. Unfortunately they have nothing to do with the other videos, or the assignments, which are about using GCP and machine learning in general. They have nothing to do with application of the financial material.
By Edward L
•Feb 6, 2020
Constant headaches trying to get GCP to work. Even if you do get it to run without crashing (unlikely) you don't really learn much in the labs because they are already 100% written for you - its just run this code we provided.
By Jeremy H
•Oct 5, 2023
Unable to access required course materials (https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-trading-machine-learning-gcp/discussions/search?q=qwiklabs).
By Sangusanthoshreddy R
•Apr 25, 2020
More of theory.
Labs are not very poor. Doesn't explain the important part of code.
Intuition is not explained well.
Waste of money
By Adriano A
•Jul 22, 2020
I can't stand the voice and the gestures of one of instructors, they really bother me. Sorry. Leaving because of this.
By Xiaolin Q
•May 30, 2021
You basically pay for getting an advertisement. Nothing is actually taught except for introducing the "amazing" GCP.
By S. H M
•May 29, 2022
Everything was superficially stated and the assignments were not clear and workable at all
By Philipp L
•Mar 6, 2024
Outdated instructions. Notebooks don't run since packages changed or API changed
By Andrey G
•Jul 3, 2024
Low quality of content. Issues with the resource permissions in the lab.
By Dheeraj T
•Feb 26, 2024
This needs a serious update - The google cloud instructions do not work.
By Nikhil R
•Apr 11, 2020
I find better organized and applicable content than this by googling
By JC h
•May 7, 2021
terrible ... your instructions for unenrolling aren't accurate
By John Y
•Jun 14, 2021
FUCK YOU, I WANT TO UNENROLL YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE