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    Practical Machine Learning: A New Look at Anomaly Detection
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    Practical Machine Learning: A New Look at Anomaly Detection

    By Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman

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    Finding Data Anomalies You Didn't Know to Look For

    Anomaly detection is the detective work of machine learning: finding the unusual, catching the fraud, discovering strange activity in large and complex datasets. But, unlike Sherlock Holmes, you may not know what the puzzle is, much less what “suspects” you’re looking for. This O’Reilly report uses practical examples to explain how the underlying concepts of anomaly detection work.

    From banking security to natural sciences, medicine, and marketing, anomaly detection has many useful applications in this age of big data. And the search for anomalies will intensify once the Internet of Things spawns even more new types of data. The concepts described in this report will help you tackle anomaly detection in your own project.

    • Use probabilistic models to predict what’s normal and contrast that to what you observe
    • Set an adaptive threshold to determine which data falls outside of the normal range, using the t-digest algorithm
    • Establish normal fluctuations in complex systems and signals (such as an EKG) with a more adaptive probablistic model
    • Use historical data to discover anomalies in sporadic event streams, such as web traffic
    • Learn how to use deviations in expected behavior to trigger fraud alerts

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Release dateJul 21, 2014
    ISBN9781491914182
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    Practical Machine Learning: A New Look at Anomaly Detection
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    Ted Dunning

    Ted Dunning is Chief Applications Architect at MapR Technologiesand active in the open source community. He currently serves as VP for Incubator at the Apache Foundation,as a champion and mentor for a large number of projects, and ascommitter and PMC member of the Apache ZooKeeper and Drillprojects. He developed the t-digest algorithm used to estimateextreme quantiles. T-digest has been adopted by several open sourceprojects. He also developed the open source log-synth projectdescribed in the book Sharing Big Data Safely (O’Reilly). Ted was the chief architect behind the MusicMatch (now YahooMusic) and Veoh recommendation systems, built fraud-detectionsystems for ID Analytics (LifeLock), and has issued 24 patents todate. Ted has a PhD in computing science from University of Sheffield.When he’s not doing data science, he plays guitar and mandolin.Ted is on Twitter as @ted_dunning.

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