The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 15: SVM in Excel

Published: (December 15, 2025 at 02:41 PM EST)
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Source: Towards Data Science

Overview

Instead of starting with margins and geometry, this article builds the Support Vector Machine step by step from familiar models. By changing the loss function and reusing regularization, SVM appears naturally as a linear classifier trained by optimization. This perspective unifies logistic regression…

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