# Simple statistics for anomaly detection on time-series data

DevFeed: [Simple statistics for anomaly detection on time-series data](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/simple-statistics-for-anomaly-detection-on-time-series-data-18384.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/anomaly-detection>)

Author: Alberto Romeu

Published: 2021-06-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [data analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-analytics.md>), [Time Series](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/time-series.md>), [dataset](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dataset.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [anomaly-detection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anomaly-detection.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-analytics.md>), [dataset](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dataset.md>), [i-built-this](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/i-built-this.md>), [patterns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/patterns.md>), [series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/series.md>), [time-series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time-series.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces anomaly detection as a data analytics task focused on identifying outliers or unusual patterns in time-series data and datasets.

## Source excerpt

Anomaly detection is a type of data analytics whose goal is detecting outliers or unusual patterns in a dataset.