Learner Reviews & Feedback for Machine Learning Foundations for Product Managers by Duke University
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KV
Jun 23, 2023
Great way to get started and introduced to concepts. Project work ensure it covers all the topics taught in the course. Great way to recap and apply concepts to play.
MR
Aug 27, 2025
Great overview of machine learning and its uses. It was easy to follow, and I've learned a lot of new things. I would recommend this to anyone, not just to Product managers.
201 - 225 of 231 Reviews for Machine Learning Foundations for Product Managers
By Sharmila S
•Dec 4, 2022
I thoroughly enjoyed this introductory course to ML. It was a intensive introduction to various models and techniques.
By Elba A
•Nov 22, 2024
well structured, ambitious content, applicability and mathematical methods must be thought through carefully
By Phillip C
•Jan 9, 2024
I think the information should be better organised. Meaning, it should follow a more linear progression.
By Nikita F
•Jan 8, 2024
The course is great. It does, however, need an update, as so much has happened over the past few years.
By Reggie O
•Jan 16, 2026
Solid introduction. It would have been great if we could have gotten into using Vertex AI.
By Anthony P
•Aug 20, 2025
Found some of the content a bit hard to follow, some more real world examples would help.
By Sudeepta S
•Sep 13, 2023
Well arranged course following a sequential learning path.
By Astrinos
•Dec 12, 2022
Very tough course. I don't think it's for beginner Level.
By Juhi K
•Oct 13, 2024
Awesome course - great learning of the foundations of ML
By Aurélien V
•Nov 21, 2023
Great course. a few more real exercise would improve it!
By Dawid P
•Nov 14, 2022
Very good but also very technical. Refresh your math :-)
By SENTHIL K S
•Dec 31, 2025
we may need more engagement for AI model assessments
By Selly W
•Nov 10, 2023
Well structured foundational course
By BIMALENDU B
•Mar 19, 2025
excellent
By Abhishek A
•Oct 9, 2022
By Siddharth
•Jan 18, 2024
I was eager to take this course to expand my knowledge of machine learning fundamentals and applications as a product manager. Overall, I found the course to be a valuable introduction to key machine learning concepts and algorithms. The instructor clearly has deep expertise in the field and I appreciated how he used real-world examples to illustrate the material. His lectures were engaging and he effectively conveyed complex topics in an accessible way. I also liked that the course provided opportunities to get hands-on experience through the final project. My main suggestion would be to consider expanding the curriculum to add more depth on supervised and unsupervised learning approaches. While I recognize the course aims for a broad overview, slightly more rigor would help differentiate it and better prepare students to apply these techniques. That said, I understand the challenges of balancing breadth and depth in a short course. The topics covered do provide a solid foundation to build upon. I particularly valued the practical guidance on evaluating and interpreting models - an area where product managers need to collaborate effectively with technical teams. To fully prepare product managers for applying machine learning, I believe the course would benefit from more in-depth coverage of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques. I posit that adding another course, or two that adds greater depth to all things Supervised, and Unsupervised learning in this course could make this course not just stand out, but also transform it to being the go-to course for anyone wanting to become an AI PM. Also, consider adding another module in the intro course to cover algorithms like support vector machines and Naive Bayes to make it more complete. Incorporating 5-6 hands-on guided projects using the methods covered would also let students get critical hands-on experience applying the concepts. With these enhancements, the course could become the definitive destination for aspiring AI PMs to build a strong foundation beyond surface-level ML literacy. That said, I appreciate the quality of instruction and see this as constructive feedback for an already valuable introductory course. Overall, I would absolutely recommend this course to anyone interested in gaining core ML literacy as a product manager. The instructor and content are excellent for an introductory survey course. I believe expanding on a few areas could make it an even more comprehensive offering and stellar resource for aspiring AI product managers. Please take my suggestions as constructive feedback to an already strong course. I appreciate the quality of instruction and look forward to learning more!
By Ronya M
•Feb 12, 2026
Overall, I found the course valuable and I do think it adds meaningful insight into machine learning concepts. That said, based on my own experience, I would strongly encourage anyone interested in taking it to make sure they have the prerequisite knowledge first. There is a fair amount of higher-level math and terminology that the course moves through quickly, and having that foundation already absorbed would make the learning experience much smoother
By Hunter P
•Oct 31, 2023
Lots of what, not enough why. Some lessons are just explanations of algorithms without examples of why or how they would be useful. I can look up these concepts anywhere, wikipedia, google. I'm taking this course to learn why something is important, not to go through motions like a machine.
By Olaf K
•Dec 9, 2022
A completely new experience, this course, a lot is explained in the video, but then solving a complex task without practice, where you have to repeat everything, shocked me at first. Hope you understand this english better, like me.
By Aditya A
•Dec 30, 2024
Was trying to do too many things in a single course. Could have done with introduction of less concepts - I am not sure how many people will remember K-means clustering 1 month after doing this course.
By Shubhashis P
•Oct 24, 2023
I am indifferent to just reading the slides vs going through the slides. The quiz and slides are great not the content delivery.
By Jon N
•Sep 22, 2023
The instructor was a bit boring. Talked a lot about equations but never showed examples of how to use them.
By Amit D
•Dec 25, 2023
Please add some videos about tools such as excel and how to use this models in that
By Fran S
•Nov 16, 2025
i need a lot more doing to learn this type of thing being a non technical person
By tara c
•Aug 23, 2025
The title is deceptive. It's 90% data analytics which I do understand is the foundation of ML but the rest 10% is not worth the value and not very well explained. I'd rather do fast ai free lessons 4,5 than pay for this.