What Is a Classifier?

This episode we're going to be discussing classifiers and in some ways I think continuing the discussion about factors as well. The notion of a classifier is quite simple at its base level which is really just a function that takes in an input and you know classifies it so produces an output of some category. It turns out that once you start thinking about any Predictive model as a classifier that's basically trying to pick you know longs or shorts It makes it a little easier in other ways to think about You know your entire workflow your entire infrastructure, so I know at itsAt its core Let's give you a real example of aclassifier a classifier exists within a fire detector