Wow, I’m happy to announce that today is the first of a two part guest post series. Today’s guest post is by Marin Matijas, who gave a presentation at RCOMM 2010 about Short Term Load Forecasting using Support Vector Machines (SVM). I asked Marin to elaborate a little about his use of the Radial Bias Function (RBF) in Rapidminer’s SVM operator and here’s what he had to say! I did edit the post a bit for readability.