We compare discriminative and generative learning as typified by logistic regression and naive Bayes. We show, contrary to a widely(cid:173) held belief that discriminative classifiers are almost always to be preferred, that there can often be two distinct regimes of per(cid:173) formance as the training set size is increased, one in which each algorithm does better. This stems from the observation- which is borne out in repeated experiments- that while discriminative learning has lower asymptotic error, a generative classifier may also approach its (higher) asymptotic error much faster.

In supervised machine learning, you usually have an input X, which goes into your prediction function to get your Y . You can then compare your prediction with the true value Y. This gives you your cost which you use to update the parameters θ. Sentiment analysis (also known as opinion mining or emotion AI) refers to the use of natural language processing, text analysis, computational linguistics, and biometrics to systematically identify, extract, quantify, and study affective states and subjective information. So, let's start sentiment analysis using Logistic Regression We will be using the sample twitter data set for this exercise.