Machine Learning Prediction in Two Minutes: Perfectly Predicting Your Car

Your car is fairly unique. Well, the model of your car is fairly unique, as the manufacturer has set it up to drive in a certain way. A good car mechanic knows this, and will look for the car to run with its normal parameters, such as engine idle speed, normal vibrations from the engine, and so on. If any of these normal things vary outside the norm too much, it might indicate a fault.

So, if there’s one skill to pick up if your into Cybersecurity, it’s the usage of machine learning (ML), as the days of just using “the tool” to find things are gone. Often we need to find out what is normal and what is not. With the usage of ML, we can often easily find correlations within data sets that would be almost impossible using spreadsheets and standard tools. So, within Splunk —possibly the most popular cyber analytics tool — we have a whole suite of machine learning tools:

As we can see we can make predictions for numerical values, such as finding out the predicted temperature today at 12pm, or to predict categories, such as predicting the model of your car, based on collected data. Within category prediction there are a number of…