How it works...

The Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) app is the main Splunk app that contains all the necessary knowledge objects and user interfaces that make working with machine learning possible. On its own, that would be enough to provide some basic functionality. However, to take advantage of more advanced machine learning concepts, Splunk needs to take advantage of additional Python libraries.

The Python for Scientific Computing add-on contains a Python interpreter bundled with the numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, and statsmodels libraries. These libraries are platform-specific, which is why the correct version must be installed.

The Machine Learning Toolkit also provides the ability to customize and extend the application with your ...

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