Support Vector Machine (SVM) Tutorial: Learning SVMs From Examples

After the Statsbot team published the post about time series anomaly detection, many readers asked us to tell them about the Support Vector Machines approach. It's time to catch up and introduce you to SVM without hard math and share useful libraries and resources to get you started. If you have used machine learning to perform classification, you might have heard about Support Vector Machines (SVM). Introduced a little more than 50 years ago, they have evolved over time and have also been adapted to various other problems like regression, outlier analysis, and ranking. SVMs are a favorite tool in the arsenal of many machine learning practitioners.