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A Machine Learning Roadmap

Santiago Valdarrama
4 min readJun 4, 2021

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One platform. One cohesive list of courses that you can follow.

Most online courses are useless. They will not get you anywhere.

At least, not by themselves. At least, not without structure and curation.

This is where this list comes in.

I decided to put together a simple roadmap that you can use to start a career in machine learning. A cohesive list of courses that you can follow without leaving the comfort of the Coursera platform.

A short disclaimer.

Building a career in machine learning is a lifelong pursuit.

But every journey starts with the first step, and this is where these resources come in.

As a disclaimer, I have an engineering background. I’m not a researcher, so I’m not qualified to advise those who aspire to work in academia. I can tell, however, what’s useful in the industry, so this list is biased towards that goal.

Everything starts with Python.

Learning Python is not just a prerequisite for getting into machine learning, but it’s an investment that will help your career for the rest of your life.

To start, focus all of your energy on learning the language.

The Python for Everybody specialization offered by the University of Michigan can get you started. With…

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Santiago Valdarrama
Santiago Valdarrama

Written by Santiago Valdarrama

I build machine learning systems until 5 pm. Then I come here and tell you stories about them.

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