It wasn’t a class at all, it was a capstone project.
A relevant point which wasn’t in the post: the project was in senior year, and all of them ended up going into data science after graduation, as did I. I knew years before that data science was hot and in high demand at the time and would likely suit me well; I explicitly optimized for it. I don’t think any of them planned that far ahead at all.
I see. Did the capstone project need to be related to machine learning, or was it just what the group wanted to do? (But yes, most college students will not be optimizing their learning for the specific career they actually do end up in after graduation.)
It wasn’t a class at all, it was a capstone project.
A relevant point which wasn’t in the post: the project was in senior year, and all of them ended up going into data science after graduation, as did I. I knew years before that data science was hot and in high demand at the time and would likely suit me well; I explicitly optimized for it. I don’t think any of them planned that far ahead at all.
I see. Did the capstone project need to be related to machine learning, or was it just what the group wanted to do? (But yes, most college students will not be optimizing their learning for the specific career they actually do end up in after graduation.)