Build a machine learning email spam detector with Python

Spam emails, often containing scams or phishing content, are typically sent using bots and are generally filtered by popular email platforms like Gmail and Microsoft Outlook. However, some well-disguised spam can bypass these filters, posing risks such as exposure to malware when users click on them. To enhance protection, a tutorial demonstrates building an email spam detector using Python and machine learning. The process involves importing necessary libraries like Pandas for data analysis and Scikit-learn for machine learning tasks. A dataset of emails is split into training and testing sets to train a model using techniques like the train-test split and support vector machine (SVM) algorithms. The model is trained to recognize patterns in spam emails by tokenizing and counting word occurrences with CountVectorizer, achieving a classification accuracy of 97%. The tutorial provides a step-by-step guide to implementing this spam detection system, underlining the potential of machine learning in creating robust email filters.