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Artificial Intelligence with Power BI

By : Mary-Jo Diepeveen
Book Image

Artificial Intelligence with Power BI

By: Mary-Jo Diepeveen

Overview of this book

The artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in Power BI enable organizations to quickly and easily gain more intelligent insights from unstructured and structured data. This book will teach you how to make use of the many AI features available today in Power BI to quickly and easily enrich your data and gain better insights into patterns that can be found in your data. You’ll begin by understanding the benefits of AI and how it can be used in Power BI. Next, you’ll focus on exploring and preparing your data for building AI projects and then progress to using prominent AI features already available in Power BI, such as forecasting, anomaly detection, and Q&A. Later chapters will show you how to apply text analytics and computer vision within Power BI reports. This will help you create your own Q&A functionality in Power BI, which allows you to ask FAQs from another knowledge base and then integrate it with PowerApps. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll be able to create and deploy AutoML models trained in Azure ML and consume them in Power Query Editor. After your models have been trained, you’ll work through principles such as privacy, fairness, and transparency to use AI responsibly. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned when and how to enrich your data with AI using the out-of-the-box AI capabilities in Power BI.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: AI Fundamentals
5
Part 2: Out-of-the-Box AI Features
13
Part 3: Create Your Own Models

Configuring Custom Vision

CV is a form of supervised learning (SL) as it needs to have labeled data to train the model. A model will only be able to recognize tags or labels in images if it has seen them before. For example, if you train a model only on images of cats and dogs, it will not be able to identify what a hamster is.

In that sense, Computer Vision models learn in a similar way to children. They learn by examples, and the more examples they experience, the better they become at recognizing objects.

Now, what if we want to extract tags from images that are specific to our use case? For example, imagine you run a secondhand clothing store. Normally, customers would bring their clothes to the store, and you decide whether they are worth something and whether you want to sell them in your shop. Especially with the pandemic, you may want to avoid customers coming to your shop for clothes you don't want to accept anyway.

Instead of customers bringing clothes to the...