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Forecasting Time Series Data with Prophet

This book will help you get to grips with time series forecasting using the leading open source forecasting tool, Prophet. You’ll learn how to implement Prophet’s advanced features to build forecasting 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

9h24m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for business managers, data scientists, data analysts, machine learning engineers, and software engineers who want to build time-series forecasts in Python or R. To get the most out of this book, you should have a basic understanding of time series data and be able to differentiate it from other types of data. Basic knowledge of forecasting techniques is a plus.

Book content

chapters 9h24m total length

Product Information Document

The History and Development of Time Series Forecasting

Getting Started with Prophet

How Prophet Works

Handling Non-Daily Data

Working with Seasonality

Forecasting Holiday Effects

Controlling Growth Modes

Influencing Trend Changepoints

Including Additional Regressors

Accounting for Outliers and Special Events

Managing Uncertainty Intervals

Performing Cross-Validation

Evaluating Performance Metrics

Productionalizing Prophet

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