Week 1 Regularization assignment : Unable to load the data

Yes, that is what confused us about where you are running. When you use the course website, the only local software on your computer that matters is the browser: everything else is in the cloud.

But please be aware that there are 3 separate assignments in Week 1 of DLS C2, but the top level directory is called Week5, because they must have originally structured DLS C1 & C2 as one 7 week course.

You show the optimization assignment, which is the only assignment in Week 2 (labeled Week6).

Please click “File → Open” from your Regularization assignment notebook on the course website. You should see this:


Then click the datasets subfolder and you should see this:

If you don’t see the data.mat file in that subfolder, then try the “Get Latest Version” procedure described in detail on this thread.