Foundations of Deep Learning in Python
Understand what is Deep Learning and Why is it so popular. Get familiar with Foundations of Deep Learning.
- Understand what is Deep Learning and Why is it so popular.
- Get familiar with Foundations of Deep Learning.
Prabhakaran SPrincipal Data Scientist
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- Lessons
- 20, in 5 chapters
- Video
- 1 h 6 min
- Free to watch
- 6 lessons
- Certificate
- On completion
What you'll be able to do
- What is Deep Learning?
- Why is Deep Learning so popular and efficient?
- Overview of deep learning frameworks
- What are perceptrons?
- Various types of activation functions
- What are optimisers in deep learning
- How backpropogations works?
Course content
5 chapters · 20 lessons · 1 h 6 min · 6 free to preview
01Introduction to Deep Learning6 lessons · 16 min
- What is Deep LearningPreview1:54
- Download Resources1:00
- Why Deep LearningPreview3:49
- History of Deep LearningPreview3:20
- Applications of Deep LearningPreview2:29
- Overview of Deep LearningPreview3:30
02Building Blocks: Perceptron3 lessons · 6 min
- Weighted Sum OperationPreview2:21
- Mathemetic Representation2:35
- Course Review1:00
03Building Blocks: Activation Functions5 lessons · 9 min
- Introduction to Activation Function1:50
- Threshold Step Funtion0:48
- Logistic Sigmoid Function3:11
- Rectified Linear Unit Function2:25
- Hyperbolic Tangent Functon1:12
04Building Blocks: Optimization4 lessons · 24 min
- Introduction to Deep Neural1:10
- Gradient Descent Optimization7:40
- Gradient Descent Update Rule7:04
- Varients of Gradient Descent8:00
05Building Blocks: Backpropagation2 lessons · 13 min
- Backpropagation Intuition2:19
- Getting Metrix Dimensions Right10:27
What you need
- Basics of Python
- Foundational knowledge of Data Science
- High school maths
Who this course is for
- Data Science Aspirants
- Data Science Professionals
- Software/Data engineers interested in quantitative analysis
- Professionals working with large datasets
- Data analysts, economists, researchers
Your instructor

Prabhakaran S
Principal Data Scientist
My name is Selva, and I am super excited to mentor you on this course!
I head the Data Science team for a global Fortune 500 company and over the last 10 years of my data science experience I've deployed 20+ global products. I'm also the Founder and Chief Author of Machine Learning Plus, which has over 4M annual readers.
I specialize in covering the in-depth intuition and maths of any concept or algorithm. And based on my existing student requests, I've put up the series of courses and projects with detailed explanations, just like on-the-job experience. Hope you love it!
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