Training artificial intelligence (AI) models has traditionally required large sets of annotated data. As a result, small, uncurated data — which carries untapped value — is often left untouched. By leveraging cutting-edge developments in machine learning (ML), you can unlock the latent potential of data from unused sources to create competitive opportunities for your business.

The Unsupervised Machine Learning: Unlocking the Potential of Data online short course from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing explores the technical and strategic considerations of unsupervised learning approaches. In just six weeks, you’ll study these approaches, their capabilities, use cases, limitations, and applications. You’ll learn to see the potential of your data — no matter its quantity or quality — and deploy AI solutions tailored to your unique data, problem, and business.

This program is designed to help business decision makers leverage opportunities created by unsupervised ML. Understanding how to leverage uncurated data, managers and technology leads will be able to plan new data acquisition protocols. IT and tech professionals looking for up-to-date developments in unsupervised learning will benefit from this program material, as will data scientists and analysts looking to strengthen their knowledge of the application of computer vision technologies.

The ability to code is not a prerequisite for this program. However, this program contains complex concepts that require an existing understanding and above-average knowledge of machine learning.