Anomaly Detection In Time Series
Basic scenarios and methods
6 min readOct 6, 2023
A time series is a sequence of numbers over time. Such as daily closing prices of a certain stock, or daily high temperatures in a particular location.
Anomalies in time series are values that are highly inconsistent with those expected around at those time points.
Anomaly detection has numerous use cases. Below is a small (and biased) sample.
- Identifying temperatures in a time series of historical data of daily high temperatures in a particular…