How To Build a Simple Spam-Detecting Machine Learning Classifier

In this tutorial we will begin by laying out a problem and then proceed to show a simple solution to it using a Machine Learning technique called a Naive Bayes Classifier. This tutorial requires a little bit of programming and statistics experience, but no prior Machine Learning experience is required. You work as a software engineer at a company which provides email services to millions of people. Lately, spam has a been a major problem and has caused your customers to leave. Your current spam filter only filters out emails that have been previously marked as spam by your customers.