January 27, 2010
As anyone who uses Twitter can attest, even with some very specific search terms, language filtering and geocoding, there is going to be a lot of white noise. I decided to take this one step further.
Bayesian classification (your garden-variety spam filter) in ruby is quite easy, thanks to ruby-stemmer and the excellent classifier gem. The canonical example:
(Link: Bayesian Classification on Rails | Logan Koester)
