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Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack - Second Edition

By : Rich Collier, Camilla Montonen, Bahaaldine Azarmi
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Book Image

Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Rich Collier, Camilla Montonen, Bahaaldine Azarmi

Overview of this book

Elastic Stack, previously known as the ELK stack, is a log analysis solution that helps users ingest, process, and analyze search data effectively. With the addition of machine learning, a key commercial feature, the Elastic Stack makes this process even more efficient. This updated second edition of Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack provides a comprehensive overview of Elastic Stack's machine learning features for both time series data analysis as well as for classification, regression, and outlier detection. The book starts by explaining machine learning concepts in an intuitive way. You'll then perform time series analysis on different types of data, such as log files, network flows, application metrics, and financial data. As you progress through the chapters, you'll deploy machine learning within Elastic Stack for logging, security, and metrics. Finally, you'll discover how data frame analysis opens up a whole new set of use cases that machine learning can help you with. By the end of this Elastic Stack book, you'll have hands-on machine learning and Elastic Stack experience, along with the knowledge you need to incorporate machine learning in your distributed search and data analysis platform.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Getting Started with Machine Learning with Elastic Stack
4
Section 2 – Time Series Analysis – Anomaly Detection and Forecasting
11
Section 3 – Data Frame Analysis

Chapter 11: Classification Analysis

When we speak about the field of machine learning and specifically the types of machine learning algorithms, we tend to invoke a taxonomy of three different classes of algorithms: supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning. The third one falls outside of the scope of both this book and the current features available in the Elastic Stack, while the second one has been our topic of investigation throughout the chapters on anomaly detection, as well as the previous chapter on outlier detection. In this chapter, we will finally start dipping our toes into the world of supervised learning. The Elastic Stack provides two flavors of supervised learning: classification and regression. This chapter will be dedicated to understanding the former, while the subsequent chapter will tackle the latter.

The goal of supervised learning is to take a labeled dataset and extract the patterns from it, encode the knowledge obtained from...