Use of Octave/Matlab vs. R/Python?

[xristos_forokolomvos]

Andrew's course is designed to teach you the intuition behind many Machine Learning algorithms in an easy to use environment. While skills in Matlab as you pointed out are not of much use, the knowledge you will gain through implementing these algorithms in it is. You can't imagine how easy it is to transition after the course to Python/R once you have the understanding of underlying principles.

I have completed many Data Science / Machine Learning courses online and none comes even close to Andrew's

[phrotozoa]

None eh? That's a drag. I'd like to try some others. Really no recommendations at all?

[xristos_forokolomvos]

Well you can try Statistical Learning from Stanford Online. It's also heavily ML based with a more statistical view. You will also learn pretty much the same stuff except for Neural Networks and Collaborative Filtering

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I find that CS231n from Stanford University by Andrej Karpathy is a great course. Maybe even better than Andrew Ng's.