Chapter 13: Using Machine Learning without Premium or Embedded Capacity

Thanks to the computing power now available via powerful laptops or through the cloud, you can enrich your analysis with insights from machine learning models easily and instantly. Power BI provides integrated tools (closely related to Power BI Desktop and data flows) that allow you to use machine learning models developed by data scientists on Azure Machine Learning, models trained and deployed through Azure AutoML, or services exposed by Cognitive Services directly through a convenient graphical interface. The only drawback is that these tools (known as advanced AI) are only enabled if you use an Embedded capacity, Premium capacity, or Premium Per User (PPU) license. Does this mean that a user using Power BI Desktop or simply the Power BI service with a Pro license cannot benefit from machine learning? Absolutely not, and we'll show you how to do it thanks to Python and R.

In this chapter, you will cover...