Unable to parse the response from the Azure ML Web Service - PowerBI, Azure Auto ML, Time Series

Question

Hi everyone,

I have issues while interfacing Azure ML with PowerBI. I deployed a model from Auto ML, and tried to consume it in PowerBI. I successfully completed the following tutorials create a predictive model by using auto ML and consume a model in PowerBI . But when it comes to implement my proper model, I get this error : "Unable to parse the response from the Azure ML Web Service".

I have to add that my model forecasts time series. On the contrary, the model was a regression in the Microsoft tutorials. And I didn't use R or Python script, I used exactly the same method as the second tutorial about PowerBI.

Thank you very much for your help ! don't hesitate to ask me if you need more information.

Mary

Answer 1

Had the same issue myself, and I figured out that time series models in Azure AutoML only accept input datetime that's later than the latest datetime used when training. I have monthly data and I used until Sep 2020 to train my model, so when I filtered my input data in Power BI to only Oct 2020 and later, the AutoML model finally ran successfully. Hopefully this is helpful.

Answer 2

I am facing the exact same problem.