Email Spam Detection Using Python & Machine Learning

Email spam, also called junk email, is unsolicited messages sent in bulk by email (spamming). The name comes from Spam luncheon meat by way of a Monty Python sketch in which Spam is ubiquitous, unavoidable, and repetitive.

In this article I will show you how to create your very own program to detect email spam using a machine learning technique called natural language processing, and the Python programming language !

If you prefer not to read this post and would like a video representation of it, you can check out the YouTube Video below. It goes through everything in this article with a little more detail and will help make it easy for you to start programming your own email spam detection program even if you don’t have the programming language Python installed on your computer. Or you can use both as supplementary materials for learning!

Programming

The first thing that I like to do before writing a single line of code is to put in a description in comments of what the code does. This way I can look back on…