Coursera Launches World’s First Online Data Labelling Course For Free

The course titled — Practical Crowdsourcing for Efficient Machine Learning by Yandex is available free of charge on the Coursera platform from March 15. Taking a hands-on approach, the course will be taught by professionals from Toloka, a successful crowdsourcing data labelling platform, stated in the official release. Toloka will present real-life case studies on labelling and processing data, enabling students to master crowdsourcing concepts and even launch their own data labelling projects during the five-week course.While AI’s use becomes more commonplace, the advancement of the field still relies on human intelligence because preparing data for AI and machine learning requires people to label the data. Much of this preparation consists of data labelling and usually involves text or image classification or checking audio transcriptions. Thus, according to a report, the market for third-party data labelling is forecast to surpass $1 billion by 2023 from just $150 million in 2018.Commenting on this new launch, Olga Megorskaya, the CEO of Toloka, commented — as the pandemic accelerates digital adoption and fuels the demand for tech talent, mastering crowdsourcing technologies can give individuals and businesses the required competitive edge. This new course will enable students to apply the theory they learn to real-life machine learning tasks and projects.