The Intuition Behind Naive Bayes
Probabilities from word counts.
Guessing From Clues
Imagine spotting a spam email just from a few telltale words. Naive Bayes turns that gut feeling into a clean probability calculation.
It Starts With Bayes
The model rests on Bayes theorem, a rule for updating a belief once you see new evidence. Here the evidence is the words in your text.
All lessons in this course
- The Intuition Behind Naive Bayes
- Building a Spam Detector
- Multinomial vs Bernoulli Models
- Reading the Model's Predictions