1. Predicting demonic possession using Azure Machine Learning
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4. about Enrico van de Laar
Data & Advanced Analytics Dataheroes
MVP Data Platform
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5. Predicting possession? What's going on?!
Advanced Analytics is used in a great variety of areas: -> Healthcare -> Financial -> Logistics -> …
More and more organizations find use-cases for implementing advanced analytics solutions
Even organizations that seem unlikely to implement decision support analytics…

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7. Predicting possession? What's going on?!
Performing an exorcism is a time consuming and challenging endeavor:
Is the person truly possessed?
What kind of possession are we dealing with?
How do we arrange the logistics of priests and resources like holy water?
How do we avoid possible lawsuits and media coverage?
If we have some certainty before going into the process can we avoid the challenges above?

8. Predicting possession? What's going on?!
This sounds like a job for Machine Learning!

9. But….Why Azure Machine Learning?
Because we can also use: R
Python
SPSS
SAS
MATLAB
Octave
Etc
Because its easy to use, intuitive and user friendly!

10. But….Why Azure Machine Learning?
And….

11. Now, back to the possession stuff
Can we predict whether or not a person is possessed based on various observations?
Let’s find out!

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Presentation & Demo code
Azure Machine Learning Algorithm Cheat Sheet

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