Comment by cwyers

Somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of data science is dealing with stuff like "some of the people collecting the data used 1 for yes and 0 for no, and some of them used 'Y' for yes and 'N' for no, and some misread the question and put in numbers, your job is to figure out which 1s mean yes and which mean that the data is bad," and you can go your entire career in data science without ever using a SVM. But sure, let's have yet another article on methods.