Marco Peixeiro

Marco Peixeiro is a senior data scientist at one of Canada’s largest banks. Being self-taught, he is especially aware of what one needs to know to land a job and work in the industry. Marco is a big proponent of hands-on approaches to learning, which is the approach taken in his Medium blog, his freeCodeCamp crash course on data science, and in his Udemy course.

books & videos by Marco Peixeiro

Time Series Forecasting Using Foundation Models

  • November 2025
  • ISBN 9781633435896
  • 256 pages
  • printed in black & white

Time Series Forecasting Using Foundation Models explores the architecture of large time models and shows you how to use them to generate fast, accurate predictions. You’ll learn to fine-tune time models on your own data, execute zero-shot probabilistic forecasting, point forecasting, and more. You’ll even find out how to reprogram an LLM into a time series forecaster—all following examples that will run on an ordinary laptop.

Getting Started with Time Series Forecasting in Python

  • Course duration: 33m

Marco Peixeiro explores the random walk model, MA(q), and AR(p) models, and teaches you how to use the ACF and PACF plots for forecasting.

Time Series Forecasting in Python

  • August 2022
  • ISBN 9781617299889
  • 456 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • available in Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Time Series Forecasting in Python teaches you how to get immediate, meaningful predictions from time-based data such as logs, customer analytics, and other event streams. In this accessible book, you’ll learn statistical and deep learning methods for time series forecasting, fully demonstrated with annotated Python code. Develop your skills with projects like predicting the future volume of drug prescriptions, and you’ll soon be ready to build your own accurate, insightful forecasts.