WHY CLASSIFICATION?

Before going ahead, it is important that your mind is prepared for why we do what we do. So, let’s discuss why do we classify things and what are its benefits?

Open up your gmail account and visit over to spam section. If you haven’t till date, you will be surprised to see the chunk of bad mails gmail saves you from! A chunk of mails so meaningless that you can really have hard time finding an important mail if these were to be in your inbox. You just saw an example of how classification is useful.

This is just one example. There are million others out there in wild which gives you an idea of how classification is helpful in daily life. This makes it important for a Machine Learning person to get acquainted with some of the basic classification techniques.

Now, that’s out of the way. Let’s discuss the most basic classification algorithm – Logistic Regression. Don’t blame me! I didn’t ask them to name a classification algorithm – Logistic Regression! But whatever? \_(^_^)_/