DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD

A data processing apparatus includes an arithmetic processing unit that executes a data aggregation step of aggregating N types (N≥3) of sampling time series data to acquire M types (M≥2 and N>M) of classification time series data, a classification step of classifying the M types of classification time series data into a plurality of clusters, and an appearance data generation step of generating time series appearance data for each cluster.