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It is the most popular course on Coursera because it's ~3 hours of lectures and ~3 hours of study and it seems to be advertised for everyone who logs on to Coursera.

Andrew Ng's Course is 11 weeks and it's about ~5 hours a week and on top of that you'd really want to be quite able at High School Maths and have some programming background.



Easiness of the course is could be a big factor in it's popularity. A simpler explanation :).


It also has a broad appeal, someone could be studying social sciences or computer science and find it equally applicable.




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