Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra by Imperial College London
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GB
Aug 16, 2020
The instruction was good throughout, but I would urge fellow students to take the time to work through the problems as suggested. Also, the eigen- stuff is quite tricky and can fool you. Be careful.
MS
May 7, 2018
Good, but sometimes it is neccessary to look for supporting materials. I took this course in combination with MIT course in LA and this offered another, more practice oriented, view on the topic.
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By Mathew S
•Jun 23, 2021
Forums are a bit dead. Most helpful (and frequent) answers are a link to khan academy videos explaining the same thing, but better.
By Justina N
•Aug 6, 2020
The final module went too fast and skipped over a lot of explanation. this really does under the good parts up to week four.
By Kevin H
•Feb 12, 2022
I had to go outside this course to get and understanding of what they were talking about. This could greatly be imporved!
By Graham G
•Mar 26, 2020
Not nearly enough detail on the concepts. I had to watch all of Khan Academy's Linear Algebra course to understand.
By Punithan P
•Jan 27, 2025
Poor explanation and some assignments are challenging with no proper explanation or feedback.
By Aly A
•Sep 6, 2022
No notebook appears to me in the quizicss .no one helps me in the course in this problem
By Boyang H
•Jun 13, 2022
I can get everything Quizzes and Tests right but I have no fucking idea what I am doing.
By Roy M K
•Feb 3, 2021
There are few or no worked out examples, making it hard to solve quizes.
By Ginés M
•Jun 24, 2024
Awful feedback and useless. Specially at the end of the course
By Tri V Q
•Jul 24, 2022
Many parts are too obscure such as the Page Rank part.
By Achal A
•Aug 23, 2021
more reading content is needed
By Rishabh J
•Feb 27, 2019
Not as challenging. Too basic
By Andrey L
•Mar 23, 2021
Not for the beginner at all
By Yash G
•Dec 14, 2019
not clearly explained
By Lee B
•Jul 10, 2019
it is too expensive
By Sreeja D
•Nov 27, 2020
Tough syllabus.
By ABDULAZIZ N B A
•Mar 17, 2022
it hard
By NG, S L
•Jun 1, 2021
This is absolutely not a beginner's course. The professors did well at explaining but there is a huge gap between what I've heard and what I've done in the exercises. There is not enough information to complete the exercises. When they recommended Khan Academy as a reference source, I feel that it should be a complete whole alternative set of source instead of a supplementary source because Khan Academy explains much slower but in-depth. 5 weeks is not enough for me to go from scratch to an advanced learner. I couldn't retain what I've learnt too because all I heard were words that mean nothing to a novice like me.
By john s
•Oct 22, 2022
This course seems to be barely supported - there are questions in the discussion forums that are years old. Seems ICL has just chucked up sone lecture content and some barely related programming labs with little real thought. I am now going in search of better resources to asctually help me understand what Linear Algebra is all about and how I would actually apply any knowledge of the topic in Python programming. If I was a cynic I'd say ICl just chucked this up to make q feq quick bucks. Really disappointed with very little attempt to ensure students are actually learning through these materials.
By Kim K
•Sep 18, 2020
I wish I had read the most recent reviews for this course. I thought that by taking an online course, they would have produced a course that had a logical flow to it. I was trying to get caught up on some math that I missed taught by a TA that was all over the place. This was the wrong platform. I had to figure out what the first teacher was talking about by going online and learning it there. I was looking for a structured course that would teach me some basics. Not worth the money.
By Chris D
•Feb 28, 2020
The lectures don't cover the material in the quizzes. The only supplemental material is a single, incomplete formula sheet. In fact, it's hard to see what resources they are trying to provide other than a forum where other users fill in the many gaps and suggest alternate sources of information. Maybe it picks up significantly in weeks 4 and 5, but after going through weeks 1-3, spending most of my time trawling the forums and looking for study/learning materials on other sites, I'm done.
By Lea S
•Jul 19, 2020
While the course gave a rather high-level theoretical view of several concepts, the quizzes were based in applying those theories. Without examples of how to apply the theories, I don't feel I have a good understanding of the concepts or how they can be useful in real-world scenarios. I needed to use other resources to actually understand the concepts to be able to complete the course, which made the course rather frustrating and useless.
By John D
•Jun 30, 2019
Overall, rushed and poorly explained. It attempts to condense a semester-long course into laughably short videos (maybe 30 mins per "week"). If you had linear algebra before, probably won't be very challenging. But if you haven't... there is no help/explanation to the quizes and the message boards are filled with unanswered questions. Essentially, this course builds a very shaky foundation.