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In this liveProject, you’ll create baseline models with Naive and sNaive methods for time series forecasts that you can use as a point of comparison for other models. Taking on the role of a data scientist for a large retail company, you’ll go hands-on to prepare sales data, create the baseline models, and optimize a Prophet model to compare against your baseline.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
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prerequisites
The liveProject series is for intermediate data scientists interested in tackling their first end-to-end machine learning project. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be familiar with the following:
TOOLS
- Intermediate Python
- Basic Google Colab
- Basic Jupyter Notebook
- Basics of data visualization
- Basics of data science
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll tackle different areas of forecasting and model building. The skills you learn are the same kind used to solve complex problems by forecasters and data scientists in the industry.
- Process and clean time series data with outlier detection and linear interpolation
- Analyze and visualize time series with Seaborn and Plotly charts
- Determine seasonality with periodogram
- Train-test split time series data using nested walk-forward validation
- Establish baseline models with Naive and sNaive methods
- Set up and optimize a Prophet model as an alternative model for comparison
- Evaluate various models using weighted MAE and MAPE
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- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
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Prepare Time Series Data project for free
Prepare Time Series Data project for free
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