Implementing classification using a SVM in Ruby - Practical Artificial Intelligence

In this blog post I will show how to implement a support vector machine (SVM) in Ruby, and how to use it to solve a simple classification problem. We will be using the RubyGem rb-libsvm to help us setup a SVM, train it and make predictions in a minutes.For our dataset we will be using school admission data, this was also the dataset used for in the Implementing Classification using Logistic Regression in Ruby, and in the Implementing Simple Classification using a Neural Network in Ruby blog post, so we will be able to compare the results and determine which approach is better at solving this problem.