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Forecasting Time Series Data with Facebook Prophet

This book will help you get to grips with the task of time series forecasting using the leading open source forecasting tool available to the public, Facebook Prophet. You will learn how to implement the advanced features of Prophet to build forecast models and understand why and how to modify each of the default parameters to improve results.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

9h

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for data scientists, data analysts, machine learning engineers, software engineers, project managers, and business managers who want to build time series forecasts in Python. Working knowledge of Python and a basic understanding of forecasting principles and practices will be useful to apply the concepts covered in this book more easily.

Book content

chapters 9h total length

The History and Development of Time Series Forecasting

Getting Started with Facebook Prophet

Non-Daily Data

Seasonality

Holidays

Growth Modes

Trend Changepoints

Additional Regressors

Outliers and Special Events

Uncertainty Intervals

Cross-Validation

Performance Metrics

Productionalizing Prophet

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