ŷhat A Magical Introduction to Classification Algorithms

About Bryan: Bryan Berend is a Lead Data Scientist at Nielsen, a large consumer and media research company with employees in over 100 countries. He currently lives in Chicago and loves running, cooking, and pub trivia. When you first start learning about data science, one of the first things you learn about are classification algorithms. The concept behind these algorithms is pretty simple: take some information about a data point and place the data point in the correct group or class. A good example is the email spam filter.