What is "entropy and information gain"?
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I am reading this book (NLTK) and it is confusing. Entropy is defined as:


  

Entropy is the sum of the probability of each label times the log probability of that same label

How can I apply entropy and maximum entropy in terms of text mining? Can someone give me a easy, simple example (visual)?

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