Create machine learning models: Review

The labs are the whole point here. It's one thing to read about regression and classification, but another to actually spin up an Azure ML workspace and run the notebooks. The path guides you through each step, so it’s hard to get truly lost. For a free resource, this is impressively comprehensive—it touches on everything from data exploration with Python to basic deep learning.

The catch? It's very much an Azure tutorial. You're learning the Microsoft way of doing things, which is fine if you plan to use their tools. But don't mistake this for a vendor-neutral theory course. I finished it in a weekend, and while it definitely demystified some of the Azure ML interface for me, the actual modeling concepts felt a bit shallow. It’s more of a 'how-to' guide for the platform than a fundamental ML course.