4 Preparing our data

While there are fancier (and more effective!) ways to do what we’re about to do, the simple start below is going to provide a foundation for later work.

To teach our computer how to find suspicious complaints, we first need to think about how we find those complaints as human beings. By reading, right? So let’s teach the computer how to read, and what to look for.

In machine learning, the things you tell the algorithm to pay attention to are called features.