This course teaches you how to design and implement a complete, production-ready anomaly detection system for both tabular and time-series data. You will start by distinguishing point, contextual, and collective anomalies and understanding why fixed thresholds often fail in noisy, evolving real-world environments. From there, you will build strong statistical baselines and engineer features that make abnormal patterns more detectable across different data modalities.

Applied Anomaly Detection with Machine Learning
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Engineer features that expose anomalies, including rolling statistics, seasonality, and rate-of-change signals.
Combine multiple detectors into a unified anomaly scoring pipeline that outperforms single-method approaches.
Evaluate detectors rigorously with precision, recall, and PR-AUC understanding why recall and threshold tuning matter under heavy class imbalance.
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August 2026
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