  IEEE BigData 2021 Cup: Soft Sensing at Scale is a data mining competition
organized by Seagate Technology, in association with the IEEE BigData 2021
conference. The scope of this challenge is to tackle the task of classifying
soft sensing data with machine learning techniques. In this paper we go into
the details of the challenge and describe the data set provided to
participants. We define the metrics of interest, baseline models, and describe
approaches we found meaningful which may be a good starting point for further
analysis. We discuss the results obtained with our approaches and give insights
on what potential challenges participants may run into. Students, researchers,
and anyone interested in working on a major industrial problem are welcome to
participate in the challenge!
