Course Updates
I have made a lot of updates to my courses recently.
I have merged multiple smaller courses into larger ones.
I merged a bunch of mini-courses into a single course called Dialogflow ES Mini Courses
I merged the no-code courses – Dialogflow Building Blocks, Dialogflow Conversation Design, Dialogflow Blackholes and Dialogflow Flowcharts – into a single course called Intro to Dialogflow ES
I merged three courses which need coding – Dialogflow Sessions, Dialogflow Webhooks and Dialogflow REST API v2 – into a single course called Programming Dialogflow ES
| Old Course | New Course | Feedback about old course |
| Dialogflow Building Blocks | Merged into Intro to Dialogflow ES | “This course provides a great insight for non-programmers. Its easy to follow and allows a non-programmer to understand how Dialogflow can be used. It was easy to follow and work through on my own. I had a few outstanding questions, Answers were provided via consultation – all really easy to follow and clear.” |
| Dialogflow Conversation Design | Merged into Intro to Dialogflow ES | “This is a great course for anyone who is interested in Conversation Design. It is easy to understand, Aravind does a great job in explaining best practices and tips to make human-centred conversations through Dialogflow. Will recommend to my friends and colleagues.” |
| Dialogflow Blackholes | Merged into Intro to Dialogflow ES | “I found individual courses like Dialogflow Blackholes was worth the price of the entire bundle.” |
| Dialogflow Flowcharts | Merged into Intro to Dialogflow ES | “Take the time to learn the workflow/concepts he presents in his flowcharting tutorial. (This workflow is far superior to the approach suggested in the official DialogFlow documentation.) Using Aravind’s flowcharting approach you’ll be amazed at how quickly a functional prototype can be put together.” |
| Dialogflow Sessions | Merged into Programming Dialogflow ES | “I found that it was very important to comprehend the concept of sessions as they relate to context flow and separation of unique conversations. As with all your courses, I enjoyed the fact that you can quickly juggle back and forth from your examples to the corresponding DialogFlow panels. You teach by repetition at a pace that is reinforcing, rather than monotonous.” |
| Dialogflow Webhooks | Merged into Programming Dialogflow ES | “The video was just what I needed to understand how to take control with webhook responses regarding input and output contexts. I did not understand the concepts before carefully watching this tutorial and what can I say – the lights came on. Well described and now I can implement this feature.” |
| Dialogflow REST API v2 | Merged into Programming Dialogflow ES | “The course is targeting programmers, but as a non programmer who works with programmers this course is perfect… it provides an overview, well explained concepts and frameworks, and not too technical to follow. As with all other courses on MBD, I find it easy to follow and understand.” |
| Dialogflow CSV Importer | Updated to Dialogflow ES FAQ Chatbots | “As a non-technical user, entering content in Dialogflow was repetitive and time-consuming at best. Lather, rinse, repeat…and repeat….and repeat. Aravind’s CSV importer is a game changer. With it, you can build and store your core content in a spreadsheet or table where it is easily updated and reviewed in a commonly viewed interface. Then, when you’re ready, you can batch update or import the entire thing – saving you tons of time!” |
| Core Dialogflow | Updated to Learn Dialogflow ES | “I am going thru your course bundle. It is far and away better than anything else I have used for dialogflow training. This assessment comes from someone who taught at the University of Illinois for 30 years and started a online masters degree.” |
| Dialogflow Messenger Quickstart | Updated to Dialogflow Messenger Example Bots | “Dialogflow Messenger Quickstart gave us everything we needed to build out the ChatBot conversation we needed for our informational ChatBots. Dialogflow Messenger console is a tremendous but we had difficulty finding the details for how to use it correctly and Aarvind provided us with everything we needed in the Dialogflow Messenger Quickstart. If we had started with the course in the first place, we would have avoided burning up several days of fruitless research and efforts.” |
| Flowchart Walkthrough | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Dialogflow Regexp Entity | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Dialogflow Agent Validation | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Dialogflow and WordPress | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Dialogflow Donts | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Dialogflow Integrations 101 | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Why Choose Dialogflow | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Dialogflow Must Know Features | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Dissecting Dialogflow Intent Mapping | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Webhooks 101 | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Understanding Slot Filling | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Intro to NLU | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Speech to Text Tips for Voice Bots | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Firebase 101 for Dialogflow | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Rapid Dialogflow ES Prototyping | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Dialogflow Example Bots | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Understanding Dialogflow Training | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Flowchart to Chatbot | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Before you build your bot | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Managing Large Dialogflow ES bots | Deleted | |
| Dialogflow Automation Bundle | Separated into 4 individual courses | |
| MBD Archive | Deleted | |
| Example Website Chatbots | Merged into Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Dialogflow Website Chatbots | Deleted | |
| Dialogflow ES Agent ZIP Files | Deleted | |
| How to learn programming | Deleted | |
| Rich Webchat using Dialogflow API v1 | Deleted | |
| Rich Webchat CSV Importer | Deleted | |
| Dialogflow Discussion Group | Deleted | |
| Dialogflow Crash Course | Updated to Dialogflow ES Mini Courses | |
| Better Dialogflow Bots | Updated to Dialogflow ES Mini Courses |
About this website BotFlo1 was created by Aravind Mohanoor as a website which provided training and tools for non-programmers who were2 building Dialogflow chatbots. This website has now expanded into other topics in Natural Language Processing, including the recent Large Language Models (GPT etc.) with a special focus on helping non-programmers identify and use the right tool for their specific NLP task. For example, when not to use GPT 1 BotFlo was previously called MiningBusinessData. That is why you see that name in many videos 2 And still are building Dialogflow chatbots. Dialogflow ES first evolved into Dialogflow CX, and Dialogflow CX itself evolved to add Generative AI features in mid-2023