Brett Kennedy

Brett Kennedy is a data scientist with over 30 years of experience in software development and over 10 in data science. He has worked in outlier detection related to financial auditing, fraud detection, and social media analysis. He previously led a research team focusing on outlier detection. He lives in Toronto with his spouse and two children.

books by Brett Kennedy

Outlier Detection in Python

  • November 2024
  • ISBN 9781633436473
  • 560 pages
  • printed in black & white

Outlier Detection in Python illustrates the principles and practices of outlier detection with diverse real-world examples including social media, finance, network logs, and other important domains. You’ll explore a comprehensive set of statistical methods and machine learning approaches to identify and interpret the unexpected values in tabular, text, time series, and image data. Along the way, you’ll explore scikit-learn and PyOD, apply key OD algorithms, and add some high value techniques for real world OD scenarios to your toolkit.