Preventive Maintenance - Machine Cost Avoidance

An article on the challenges and solutions to predicting machine failures in the field.

The full details can be found here: https://github.com/kirkhas/zeppelin-notebooks/tree/master/Preventive_maintenance

Step #1 Feature Selection

Step #2 Geolocation

Step #3 - Scythe is a time-series library authored by Kirk Haslbeck for these purposes

- Needed to Resample the data into trips or route segments (Scythe Resample)

- Needed to Step Interpolate the miles since last service to be 4K, 5K and less continuous regression

Step #4

- Indexing and OneHotEncoding to the Rescue. Found a relationship of a particular "Make" that was more problematic than most.

Roc Curve - A near perfect model