Machine Learning & AI for Business crash course, Online MBA, Semester 4:
This subject covers core machine learning ideas such as supervised and unsupervised learning, overfitting and cross-validation, and ensemble methods like…
- 10 video lessons
- 1h 45m
- Study notes
- 50 quiz questions
- Assignment
10 lessons in Machine Learning & AI for Business
Each lesson pairs one topic with a hand-picked video, trimmed to the part that teaches it.
About this subject
This subject covers core machine learning ideas such as supervised and unsupervised learning, overfitting and cross-validation, and ensemble methods like random forest and boosting. It also covers NLP, sentiment analysis, generative AI and the ethics of deploying AI, so you can judge, scope and govern ML projects in a business setting.
- 1
Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning
Module 1, ML Fundamentals: Supervised vs unsupervised
Lec-23: Supervised vs Unsupervised learning with real life example· Gate Smashers· 7 min
Study notes 5 quiz questionsWatch lesson - 2
Train-Test Split and Overfitting
Module 1, ML Fundamentals: Train-test split, Overfitting
Machine Learning Fundamentals: Bias and Variance· StatQuest with Josh Starmer· 6 min
Study notes 5 quiz questionsWatch lesson - 3
Cross-Validation Explained
Module 1, ML Fundamentals: Cross-validation
Machine Learning Fundamentals: Cross Validation· StatQuest with Josh Starmer· 6 min
Study notes 5 quiz questionsWatch lesson - 4
Random Forest Explained
Module 2, Ensemble Methods: Random forest
StatQuest: Random Forests Part 1 - Building, Using and Evaluating· StatQuest with Josh Starmer· 9 min
Study notes 5 quiz questionsWatch lesson - 5
Boosting (AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting)
Module 2, Ensemble Methods: Boosting
Boosting Machine Learning Tutorial | Adaptive Boosting, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost | Edureka· edureka!· 21 min
Study notes 5 quiz questionsWatch lesson - 6
NLP Basics
Module 3, Text & Generative AI: NLP basics
Introduction to NLP | NLP Lecture 1 | End to End NLP Course· CampusX· 22 min
Study notes 5 quiz questionsWatch lesson - 7
Sentiment Analysis for Business
Module 3, Text & Generative AI: Sentiment analysis
What is Sentiment Analysis?· IBM Technology· 10 min
Study notes 5 quiz questionsWatch lesson - 8
LLMs and Generative AI in Business
Module 3, Text & Generative AI: LLMs in business
The Rise of Generative AI for Business· IBM Technology· 15 min
Study notes 5 quiz questionsWatch lesson - 9
Bias and Explainability in AI
Module 4, AI Ethics & Deployment: Bias, Explainability
AI Bias | AI Bias And Ethics | AI Bias Examples | Algorithmic Bias | Gen AI | Simplilearn· Simplilearn· 6 min
Study notes 5 quiz questionsWatch lesson - 10
ML Model Deployment
Module 4, AI Ethics & Deployment: Model deployment
Deploying a Machine Learning Model (in 3 Minutes)· Aced (formerly Exponent)· 3 min
Study notes 5 quiz questionsWatch lesson
Assignment
ML Project Proposal Memo: Predicting Customer Churn and Mining Feedback
Less scrolling. More passing.
- Free
Hand-picked video lessons
10 short lessons, each with the best YouTube explanation we could find, trimmed to the part that matters.
- Free login
Study notes
10 lessons come with a summary, key points, key terms and takeaways for quick revision.
- Free login
Quizzes
50 questions across the course, with the right answer and why, the moment you pick.
- Free login
Assignments
1 subject assignments with clear tasks, so you practise what each subject actually asks of you.
- Free login
Notebook
Write notes beside the video, stamped with the exact time, and jump back to that moment later.
- Free login
Progress that follows you
Completed lessons, quiz scores and where you stopped, saved to your account on every device.
- Live chat pass
Live chat
A members-only live chat beside every lesson: doubts, tips, stickers and GIFs with your batch. One ₹19 pass opens every live chat.
The Online MBA live chat. Study together, live.
A live chat right beside the video, shared by everyone studying Online MBA. Ask a Machine Learning & AI for Business doubt mid-lesson, share a shortcut, celebrate a finished semester.
- Live chat beside every lesson
- One live chat for all of Online MBA
- Members-only stickers & GIFs
- One ₹19 pass opens every live chat
Online MBA live chat
Anyone else finding Machine Learning & AI for Business tricky? 😅
Lesson 2 cleared it up for me. Watch it before the quiz

Doing it now, thanks!
Starting Entrepreneurship Development tonight if anyone wants to go together
More from Online MBA Semester 4
All subjects- Sem 4
MGT4429
Entrepreneurship Development
This subject follows the entrepreneurial process from the decision to start a venture, through generating and testing business ideas, writing a business plan…
- 16 lessons
- 5h 45m
- Notes
- Quiz
- Sem 4E-Commerce
ECM4401
Social Media Analytics
This subject covers how businesses use social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+, and how to collect and analyse their data through APIs,…
- 23 lessons
- 5h 6m
- Notes
- Quiz
- Sem 4Finance
FIN4404
FinTech: Technology Innovation in Financial Services
This subject covers how fintech is unbundling the financial services value chain across payments, lending, capital raising, investment management and…
- 12 lessons
- 4h 18m
- Notes
- Quiz
- Sem 4Finance
FIN4405
Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Finance
This subject covers how the private equity industry works, from fund structures and partnership agreements to structuring buyout and growth deals, managing…
- 14 lessons
- 5h 20m
- Notes
- Quiz
- Sem 4HR
HRM4401
Compensation and Reward Management
This subject explains how organisations design and run compensation and reward systems, from wage theories and job evaluation to pay structures, incentives,…
- 18 lessons
- 4h 7m
- Notes
- Quiz
- Sem 4HR
HRM4406
Managerial Counselling
This subject covers the foundations, major schools and process of counselling as applied by managers at work, from transactional analysis and person-centred…
- 15 lessons
- 3h 25m
- Notes
- Quiz
Machine Learning & AI for Business: common questions
This subject covers core machine learning ideas such as supervised and unsupervised learning, overfitting and cross-validation, and ensemble methods like random forest and boosting. It also covers NLP, sentiment analysis, generative AI and the ethics of deploying AI, so you can judge, scope and govern ML projects in a business setting. It's the Machine Learning & AI for Business subject of Online MBA, Semester 4, in 10 lessons: Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning; Train-Test Split and Overfitting; Cross-Validation Explained; Random Forest Explained; Boosting (AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting); NLP Basics; Sentiment Analysis for Business; LLMs and Generative AI in Business; Bias and Explainability in AI; ML Model Deployment.
Yes. Every video lesson is free to watch without an account. A free login unlocks study notes, quizzes, the assignment, a notebook and progress that syncs across devices.
About 1h 45m of video across 10 lessons, plus time for notes and quizzes. Go at your own pace; your place is saved.
Yes: “ML Project Proposal Memo: Predicting Customer Churn and Mining Feedback”. It comes after the last lesson, with a brief, clear tasks and how the work is judged.
A members-only live chat beside the video, shared by everyone studying Online MBA, where learners ask doubts, share tips and react with stickers and GIFs. One ₹19 pass, paid once from your InsideEdge wallet, opens the live chat for every degree.
No. It's a crash course to help you understand and revise the subject quickly. Use it alongside your official study material and assignments.