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Artificial Intelligence with Power BI

By : Mary-Jo Diepeveen
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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

Understanding how to train a model

Azure ML is designed to help (citizen) data scientists train, manage, and monitor machine learning models. The Azure ML workspace is a platform that contains a variety of features to help you during the machine learning process. Understanding the need for each feature in Azure ML will help you understand the machine learning process.

Understanding the machine learning process

We covered the machine learning process previously in this book in Chapter 1, Introducing AI in Power BI, and Chapter 11, Using Automated Machine Learning with Azure and Power BI. The overview that was provided in those chapters is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 12.1 – Process to train a model

As we will be going through each step while training a model with Azure ML, let's review each phase.

Defining the use case

At the start of any machine learning project, there should be a discussion with all the stakeholders. What...