Machine Learning Models Predicting Dangerous Seismic Events

Underground mining poses a number of threats including fires, methane outbreaks or seismic tremors and bumps. An automatic system for predicting and alerting against such dangerous events is of utmost importance – and also a great challenge for data scientists and their machine learning models. This was the inspiration for the organizers of AAIA'16 Data Mining Challenge: Predicting Dangerous Seismic Events in Active Coal Mines. Our solutions topped the final leaderboard by taking the first two places. In this post, we present the competition and describe our winning approach.