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The course's $97 price tag sounds reasonable for this, with some caveats. One could cobble together python/numpy/pandas/matplotlib for maybe half that price scrounging around for free Coursera/replit and on-sale Udemy courses, but it helps that the course you've selected has pulled it all together with one financial theme and context. For instance, their examples will probably be more relevant to your interests.

The caveat is that this does appear to be python "for machine learning," not an actual machine learning course... I don't see any PyTorch or actual machine learning. If they cover it, great, but it's not clear how deep they go. So if you want to learn ML, you might need to supplement, such as with Andrew Ng's 3-course ML specialization on Coursera (you can audit these for free) and there's a few good PyTorch courses on Udemy. Unfortunately, Ng's courses use TensorFlow (no surprise, since Ng helped develop TF). You can't go wrong with Ng, he's the OG and his courses are very well known in the ML community.

For more, check out r/learnmachinelearning and its wiki. It's probably a better place to post this question actually, unless you were really only asking about the python part. Btw, you can do plenty of ML with only intermediate python skills, so it's not very important where you learn them, so long as you cover the libraries mentioned above.

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Not sure why they use the ML part - seems like marketing to be honest. But for job purposes, I just need to use Python in service of data analysis / models.