Time Series Forecasting With Prophet in Python - Machine Learning

Time series forecasting can be challenging as there are many different methods you could use and many different hyperparameters for each method.

The Prophet library is an open-source library designed for making forecasts for univariate time series datasets. It is easy to use and designed to automatically find a good set of hyperparameters for the model in an effort to make skillful forecasts for data with trends and seasonal structure by default.

In this tutorial, you will discover how to use the Facebook Prophet library for time series forecasting.

After completing this tutorial, you will know:

• Prophet is an open-source library developed by Facebook and designed for automatic forecasting of univariate time series data.
• How to fit Prophet models and use them to make in-sample and out-of-sample forecasts.
• How to evaluate a Prophet model on a hold-out dataset.

Let’s get started.

Time Series Forecasting With Prophet in Python

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Tutorial Overview

This tutorial is divided into three parts; they are:

1. Prophet Forecasting Library
2. Car Sales Dataset
3. Load and Summarize Dataset
4. Load and Plot Dataset
5. Forecast Car Sales With Prophet
6. Fit Prophet Model
7. Make an In-Sample Forecast
8. Make an Out-of-Sample Forecast
9. Manually Evaluate Forecast Model

Prophet Forecasting Library

Prophet, or “Facebook Prophet,” is an open-source library for univariate (one variable) time series forecasting developed by Facebook.

Prophet implements what they refer to as an additive time series forecasting model, and the implementation supports trends, seasonality, and holidays.

Implements a procedure for forecasting time series data based on an additive model where non-linear trends are fit with yearly, weekly, and daily seasonality, plus holiday effects

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Python Packages

When we choose Python as Machine Learning Service during installation, the following packages are installed in SQL Server,

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• microsoftml – This is another Microsoft Python package which adds machine learning algorithms in Python.
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What is Time Series Forecasting?

In this article, we will be discussing an algorithm that helps us analyze past trends and lets us focus on what is to unfold next so this algorithm is time series forecasting.

What is Time Series Analysis?

In this analysis, you have one variable -TIME. A time series is a set of observations taken at a specified time usually equal in intervals. It is used to predict future value based on previously observed data points.

Here some examples where time series is used.

1. Business forecasting
2. Understand the past behavior
3. Plan future
4. Evaluate current accomplishments.

Components of time series :

1. Trend: Let’s understand by example, let’s say in a new construction area someone open hardware store now while construction is going on people will buy hardware. but after completing construction buyers of hardware will be reduced. So for some times selling goes high and then low its called uptrend and downtrend.
2. **Seasonality: **Every year chocolate sell goes high during the end of the year due to Christmas. This same pattern happens every year while in the trend that is not the case. Seasonality is repeating same pattern at same intervals.
3. Irregularity: It is also called noise. When something unusual happens that affects the regularity, for example, there is a natural disaster once in many years lets say it is flooded so people buying medicine more in that period. This what no one predicted and you don’t know how many numbers of sales going to happen.
4. Cyclic: It is basically repeating up and down movements so this means it can go more than one year so it doesn’t have fix pattern and it can happen any time and it is much harder to predict.

Stationarity of a time series:

A series is said to be “strictly stationary” if the marginal distribution of Y at time t[p(Yt)] is the same as at any other point in time. This implies that the mean, variance, and covariance of the series Yt are time-invariant.

However, a series said to be “weakly stationary” or “covariance stationary” if mean and variance are constant and covariance of two-point Cov(Y1, Y1+k)=Cov(Y2, Y2+k)=const, which depends only on lag k but do not depend on time explicitly.

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We’ve provided sample code on various places, but you should only use it to understand how it works. Implementing the code without understanding it would fail the premise of doing the project. So be sure to understand the code well before implementing it.

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