
Building a Spam Detection System with Naive Bayes and Python: From Theory to Production
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably wondered why your inbox isn’t completely overrun with emails promising to enlarge things that definitely don’t need enlarging. The answer lies in machine learning—specifically, a deceptively simple yet remarkably effective algorithm called Naive Bayes. Today, we’re going to build a spam filter that would make any email provider’s engineers nod in approval (or at least not laugh at our code). The Problem We’re Solving Spam is like that uninvited guest at a party who won’t leave—except instead of one person ruining your evening, you’ve got thousands of messages clogging up your inbox every single day....
