Ham or Spam? SMS Text Classification with Machine Learning

The use of mobile phones has skyrocketed in the last decade leading to a new area for junk promotions from disreptable marketers. People innocently give out their mobile phone numbers while utilizing day to day services and are then flooded with spam promotional messages. In this post we will take a look at classifying SMS messages using the Naive Bayes Machine Learning model, understand why Naive Bayes works well for this use case and also dive a little into wordclouds to visualize this dataset.