Identifying Problems with Anomaly Detector
As we've seen so far in this book, there are many opportunities where we can use artificial intelligence (AI) with the help of Cognitive Services for a variety of purposes to improve business operations and add value. When we look at the Anomaly Detector service, we will change our focus a bit and examine how Ocean Smart was able to reduce the risk of inventory and raw materials being spoiled. Through the years, millions of dollars worth of product has had to be written off due to spoilage that could potentially have been avoided. With better monitoring and notifications, these unfortunate and costly occurrences could be avoided.
The Anomaly Detector service allows us to monitor streams of data for unexpected or irregular events. We will examine how we can do this with single and multiple, univariate and multivariate, streams of data to recognize and alert about these events as part of daily operations. Our example will take us through...
