diff --git a/apt/anonymization/anonymizer.py b/apt/anonymization/anonymizer.py
index f830bb6..cd7f097 100644
--- a/apt/anonymization/anonymizer.py
+++ b/apt/anonymization/anonymizer.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
-from scipy.spatial import distance
 from collections import Counter
 
 from sklearn.compose import ColumnTransformer
@@ -146,7 +145,8 @@ class Anonymize:
                     min_value = max(values)
                     min_dist = float("inf")
                     for value in values:
-                        dist = distance.euclidean(value, median)
+                        # euclidean distance between two floating point values
+                        dist = abs(value - median)
                         if dist < min_dist:
                             min_dist = dist
                             min_value = value
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f6f71a0..91bf617 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 numpy==1.24.2
 pandas==1.1.05
-scipy==1.4.1
+scipy==1.10.1
 scikit-learn>=0.22.2,<=1.1.3
 torch>=1.8.0
 tqdm>=4.64.1