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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

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.

Power BI has an out-of-the-box anomaly detection feature that can be used to detect unexpected events in time-series data. Having this feature makes it very easy for users to find out which data points don't fit in the normal trend of the data...