Top 5 Reasons To Take Up A Machine Learning Course

Posted by Shweta Sehgal on April 12th, 2016

Lately, Machine learning has caught the interest of a lot of companies. It is mainly because large volume of Data is being generated across all points. To solve a business problem more efficiently, it is necessary to automate the process of data handling, mining and finally applying predictive models.

Top 5 reasons for you to take up machine learning as a career are:

1. The Next Big Thing in Analytics - Large companies are moving towards Machine Learning.

Now, according to IBM, Google, Microsoft and many other vendors, Machine Learning is the next big thing. Google uses machine learning for its web searches and email spam detection. Machine learning has infiltrated Microsoft products from Bing to Office to Windows 8 to Xbox games. IBM Watson is a technology platform that uses natural language processing and Machine Learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data.

2. International Career Scope

There will be a shortage of about 1.9 lakhs people in USA with deep expertise in statistics and Machine Learning by the year 2018. Machine learning experts who start of as a Jr. Data Scientist slowly moves through the ranks of Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist and a Chief Data Scientist in a company.

3. Lucrative Pay Package

Salary of a beginner in Machine Learning is approximately 7 lakhs per annum vs Business Analysts which is approximately 4.5 lakhs per annum (Source: Payscale.com). The growth trajectory from the junior to the Middle level Data Scientist is higher.

4. Volume And Variety Of Data – Machine learning is able to manage varied and volumes of  data by its three types of Algorithms –

1. Supervised
2. Unsupervised
3. Reinforcement

5. Change The Future

Machine Learning is the future technology that will be used to change the way we live. It is being largely used in varied domains linked to all the areas of our life. Few examples are illustrated below:

1. Healthcare - Early detection of illnesses like Cancer
2. Banking - Top economists like Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian are calling for more machine learning in economics, hoping it can lead to a better understanding of the implications of our economic policy and better market forecasts.
3. Defense and Military Strategy - Machines have been used to track various terrorist activities by Governments.

 About the Company:

Ivy conducts Business Analytics Certification programme, Big Data Hadoop, Data Visualization and Machine learning training. A hybrid model of Live Online as well as classroom sessions is followed for conducting classes. The Machine learning online course is available to all students who want to attend classes from the comfort of their offices or homes. It has been ranked as one of the Top 5 Big Data Institutes in the country by SiliconIndia.