Support Vector Machines are one of the most mysterious methods in Machine Learning. This StatQuest sweeps away the mystery to let know how they work. Part 2: The Polynomial Kernel: https://youtu.be/Toet3EiSFcM Part 3: The Radial (RBF) Kernel: https://youtu.be/Qc5IyLW_hns NOTE: This StatQuest assumes you already know about... The bias/variance tradeoff: https://youtu.be/EuBBz3bI-aA Cross Validation: https://youtu.be/fSytzGwwBVw ALSO NOTE: This StatQuest is based on description of Support Vector Machines, and associated concepts, found on pages 337 to 354 of the Introduction to Statistical Learning in R: http://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/gareth-james/ISL/ I also found this blogpost helpful for understanding the Kernel Trick: https://blog.statsbot.co/support-vector-machines-tutorial-c1618e635e93 For a complete index of all the StatQuest videos, check out: https://statquest.org/video-index/ If you'd like to support StatQuest, please consider... Buying The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning!!! PDF - https://statquest.gumroad.com/l/wvtmc Paperback - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZCKR4H6 Kindle eBook - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZG79HXC Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statquest ...or... YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtYLUTtgS3k1Fg4y5tAhLbw/join ...a cool StatQuest t-shirt or sweatshirt: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/statquest-with-josh-starmer/ ...buying one or two of my songs (or go large and get a whole album!) https://joshuastarmer.bandcamp.com/ ...or just donating to StatQuest! https://www.paypal.me/statquest Lastly, if you want to keep up with me as I research and create new StatQuests, follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/joshuastarmer 0:00 Awesome song and introduction 0:40 Basic concepts and Maximal Margin Classifiers 4:35 Soft Margins (allowing misclassifications) 6:46 Soft Margin and Support Vector Classifiers 12:23 Intuition behind Support Vector Machines 15:25 The polynomial kernel function 17:30 The radial basis function (RBF) kernel 18:32 The kernel trick 19:31 Summary of concepts #statquest #SVM