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Spam Email Classifier

Build a text-classification model that labels messages as spam or legitimate.

LevelCollege / Intermediate Duration3–4 Weeks Components₹500–₹2,000 CodingMedium
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Spam Email Classifier

Project overview

Build a text-classification model that labels messages as spam or legitimate.

Build a text-classification model that labels messages as spam or legitimate.

Components / materials required

✓Laptop
✓Python
✓Scikit-learn
✓Text dataset

What the project demonstrates

✓Text cleaning
✓Feature extraction
✓Classification
✓Precision/recall evaluation

Suggested build plan

01

Dataset prep

Clean and label text.

02

Vectorisation

Use bag-of-words or TF-IDF.

03

Training

Fit a baseline classifier.

04

Evaluation

Review false positives/negatives.

Learning outcomes

✓Understand NLP preprocessing
✓Use TF-IDF
✓Train text classifiers
✓Interpret precision and recall
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