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Artificial Intelligence with Power BI
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Artificial Intelligence with Power BI

by Mary-Jo Diepeveen
April 2022
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
7h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5: Detecting Anomalies in Your Data Using Power BI

Anomaly detection is used when unexpected and rare events need to be identified. Some anomalies are clear outliers and show up as easily recognizable spikes in data. However, some anomalies are more subtle than that and require machine learning (ML) to be detected.

What an anomaly represents depends on the situation. Most commonly, anomaly detection is used for predictive maintenance, when monitoring—for example—an engine. The temperature of an engine can be measured and visualized and is expected to fluctuate. However, whenever the temperature increases or decreases significantly and unexpectedly, it is a cause for concern and a reason to further investigate.

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