Implementing Splunk 7, Third Edition - Third Edition

Defining the toolkit

Consider that Splunk offers a three-tier architecture for machine learning defined as:

• Tier 1: Core platform searching features
• Tier 2: Packaged solutions and apps offered on Splunkbase
• Tier 3: Using the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit

Since tier 1 and tier 2 should be self-explanatory to you at this point, let's have a closer look at tier 3.

To define the Machine Learning Toolkit, we will start with a typical machine learning project so as to understand what type of work will be carried out by most data scientists. These work efforts are:

• Collect (data)
• Clean and transform (data)
• Explore and visualize (data)
• Model (data)
• Evaluate (the results of the model)
• Deployment (once the predictions are made, how can they be ...