Support Vector Machines (SVMs): A friendly introduction

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An introduction to support vector machines (SVMs) that requires very little math (no calculus or linear algebra), only a visual mind.
This is the third of a series of three videos.
- Linear Regression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYPUhge9w5c
- Logistic Regression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbluHIgBmBo

0:00 Introduction
1:42 Classification goal: split data
3:14 Perceptron algorithm
6:00 Split data - separate lines
7:05 How to separate lines?
12:01 Expanding rate
18:19 Perceptron Error
19:26 SVM Classification Error
20:34 Margin Error
25:13 Challenge - Gradient Descent
27:25 Which line is better?
28:24 The C parameter
30:16 Series of 3 videos
30:30 Thank you!