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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to quickly view important metrics to understand the contents of your data by generating summary statistics with data profiling tools (Column quality, Column distribution, and Column profile) in the Power Query Editor. We then discussed the many different visualizations that can be used to explore your data, such as line, bar, column, and scatter charts. We used a Python visual and learned how to create histograms and box plots with the matplotlib library. All these tools will help you to understand your data, to learn whether it is a representative dataset that you should continue to use, and as you get your first insights from your data, you will be able to judge how it can be used for different AI projects.

Now that we understand the content of our data, we know that there are some problems to fix before we move on to AI. To ensure data quality, we need to fix our outliers, missing data, and imbalanced data that can negatively influence...