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.