Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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When most people want to learn about Naive Bayes, they want to learn about the Multinomial Naive Bayes Classifier - which sounds really fancy, but is actually quite simple. This video walks you through it one step at a time and by the end, you'll no longer be naive about Naive Bayes!!!

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0:00 Awesome song and introduction
1:08 Histograms and conditional probabilities
4:22 Classifying "Dear Friend"
7:33 Review of concepts
9:00 Classifying "Lunch Money x 5"
10:54 Pseudocounts
12:35 Why Naive Bayes is Naive

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