Coursera and Google collaborated to form a specialization 'Machine Learning Specialization'. Google has also previously collaborated with coursera to form numerous courses for IT professionals and programmers earlier.
This specialization will be consisting of 5 courses in total which will contain a lot of practical and usage and applications. This specialization is called 'Machine learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform' and broadly explains the usage of TensorFlow which was on beta till 27th March 2018. TensorFlow is the Google's machine learning open source library which is being widely used in machine learning applications. This specialization was developed after the success of its predecessor, which most of the students liked but they wanted to dive deeper into the field of machine learning. Furthermore students also wanted to learn to production of models in the cloud as ML uses a lot of computing power.
So Lak Lakshman Google’s Machine Learning Tech Lead inspired by students thought made his team develop this course which not only provided in-depth knowledge of Machine learning but also helps students in making real-world ML models, learning how to create huge data sets and managing them in TensorFlow.
Although it is a crash course the students are expected to have at least intermediary knowledge of Python language. Now as the ML is arriving at almost every tech Company it is the right time to learn it. The target audience for this course are professional who want to develop his/her skillset in Machine learning. The course would also be useful to the newly graduated students those who might be much more familiar with the theories of ML than building products.
Machine learning is the ever-growing field which is revolutionizing everyone, it is market is expected to surpass $10 billion by the year 2023 and this course is perfect to gain skill in ML and know about Deep learning(a sub field of ML). There may be a successor to even this course with a based on working with unstructured data.