Training a model to predict failures

Today a quick entry to talk about a twist on Machine Learning for the predictive maintenance problem.

The Microsoft Cortana Intelligence team wrote an interesting blog the other day:  Evaluating Failure Prediction Models for Predictive Maintenance.

When you listen to all the buzz around Machine Learning, it sometimes feels as if we’ve solved all the ML problems and...

How does criticism hit your brain?

Everybody loves a critic, right?  How do you give feedback to somebody and be effective, i.e. without your message getting deflected on their “shield”?

An area I found especially hard to deliver constructive feedback is presentation / public speaking skills.  Criticizing the way somebody speaks or...

A first look at Azure Functions

Back in summer 2010 I called for a notification mechanism within Azure, something that would call customer-defined code to take action when something happen within your subscription, e.g. a file added to blob storage, a message added to a queue, etc.  .

Back then I called...

How to do Data Science

These days, it’s all about Data Science.

What is Data Science?

Last month Brandon Rohrer, from the Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog, came up with an excellent post.

How to do Data Science?

The post basically goes over the workflow I reproduced at the right here.

I found...

What is Statistics and why should you care?

Unless you graduated in art, chances are you did a course in Statistics.

Chances are you hated it.

Most people I know postponed that course until the end of their degree, didn’t understand much about it and hated it dearly.

I didn’t like it either and understood very little.

A few...