Professional services company undertakes third section of Machine Learning course

A major UK professional services company has taken the final instalment of a 3 step Python program to become a major specialist in the field of AI (artificial intelligence). To enable this change to happen, several parts of its business were going to need to change into Analytics/AI Specialists and therefore needed to train existing staff in the much hyped new skills so that they could go ahead and service their own clients.

Following extensive pre-course consultations with the company, the Instructor and the JBI Account Manager, it was agreed that a modular approach should be taken, with several courses delivered over time, starting with Analytics with Python for beginners and moving onto AI and finally Machine Learning (ML).

The final course was set up with various objectives:

• An overview of Python machine learning, including learning, prediction and cross-validation
• Implementing supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms
• Understanding the concepts of deep learning and neural network, such as back-propagation, activation functions and hyper-parameters

Instructors used relevant financial world examples in Labs to stimulate discussion and show relevance. Plenty of hands-on allowed delegates to engage. Furthermore, some demos and practicals used data provided by the company which was familiar to the audience, thereby boosting relevance. Visualisation of the analysed data and being able to get the insights into their data was the crunch – it helped cement the theory the practical work.

Ultimately, the success was measured by the ability of the company to place newly trained consultants into fee earning roles that used the newly acquired skills. Feedback has been very positive in this respect:

“Really liked the course, it's very informative and gives a good insight into AI from a business perspective.” RW, Lead Delivery Manager

“It was an excellent overview of AI and also some of the applications of the knowledge, I especially enjoyed the exercises in the sessions.” DH, Technical Trainer

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