A Brief Survey of Time Series Classification Algorithms

A common task for time series machine learning is **classification. **Given a set of time series with class labels, can we train a model to accurately predict the class of new time series?

Source: Univariate time series classification with sktime

_There are many algorithms dedicated to time series classification! _This means you don’t have wrangle your data into a scikit-learn classifier or to turn to deep learning to solve every time series classification task.

In this article, I will introduce five categories of time series classification algorithms with details of specific algorithms. These specific algorithms have been shown to perform better on average than a baseline classifier (KNN) over a large number of different datasets [1].

1. Distance-based (KNN with dynamic time warping)
2. Interval-based (TimeSeriesForest)
3. Dictionary-based (BOSS, cBOSS)
4. Frequency-based (RISE — like TimeSeriesForest but with other features)
5. Shapelet-based (Shapelet Transform Classifier)

I conclude with brief guidance on selecting an appropriate algorithm.

#machine-learning #time-series-analysis #supervised-learning #data-science #artificial-intelligence

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Time Series Basics with Pandas

In my last post, I mentioned multiple selecting and filtering  in Pandas library. I will talk about time series basics with Pandas in this post. Time series data in different fields such as finance and economy is an important data structure. The measured or observed values over time are in a time series structure. Pandas is very useful for time series analysis. There are tools that we can easily analyze.

In this article, I will explain the following topics.

• What is the time series?
• What are time series data structures?
• How to create a time series?
• What are the important methods used in time series?

Before starting the topic, our Medium page includes posts on data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. Please don’t forget to follow us on Medium 🌱 to see these posts and the latest posts.

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10 Writing steps to create a good project brief - Mobile app development

Developing a mobile application can often be more challenging than it seems at first glance. Whether you’re a developer, UI designer, project lead or CEO of a mobile-based startup, writing good project briefs prior to development is pivotal. According to Tech Jury, 87% of smartphone users spend time exclusively on mobile apps, with 18-24-year-olds spending 66% of total digital time on mobile apps. Of that, 89% of the time is spent on just 18 apps depending on individual users’ preferences, making proper app planning crucial for success.

Today’s audiences know what they want and don’t want in their mobile apps, encouraging teams to carefully write their project plans before they approach development. But how do you properly write a mobile app development brief without sacrificing your vision and staying within the initial budget? Why should you do so in the first place? Let’s discuss that and more in greater detail.

Why a Good Mobile App Project Brief Matters?

It’s worth discussing the significance of mobile app project briefs before we tackle the writing process itself. In practice, a project brief is used as a reference tool for developers to remain focused on the client’s deliverables. Approaching the development process without written and approved documentation can lead to drastic, last-minute changes, misunderstanding, as well as a loss of resources and brand reputation.

For example, developing a mobile app that filters restaurants based on food type, such as Happy Cow, means that developers should stay focused on it. Knowing that such and such features, UI elements, and API are necessary will help team members collaborate better in order to meet certain expectations. Whether you develop an app under your brand’s banner or outsource coding and design services to would-be clients, briefs can provide you with several benefits:

• Clarity on what your mobile app project “is” and “isn’t” early in development
• Point of reference for developers, project leads, and clients throughout the cycle
• Smart allocation of available time and resources based on objective development criteria
• Streamlined project data storage for further app updates and iterations

Writing Steps to Create a Good Mobile App Project Brief

1. Establish the “You” Behind the App

Depending on how “open” your project is to the public, you will want to write a detailed section about who the developers are. Elements such as company name, address, project lead, project title, as well as contact information, should be included in this introductory segment. Regardless of whether you build an in-house app or outsource developers to a client, this section is used for easy document storage and access.

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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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Important for Time Series in Pandas

In the last post, I talked about working with time series . In this post, I will talk about important methods in time series. Time series analysis is very frequently used in finance studies. Pandas is a very important library for time series analysis studies.

In summary, I will explain the following topics in this lesson,

• Resampling
• Shifting
• Moving Window Functions
• Time zone

Before starting the topic, our Medium page includes posts on data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. Please don’t forget to follow us on Medium 🌱 to see these posts and the latest posts.

Let’s get started.

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A Brief Survey of Time Series Classification Algorithms

A common task for time series machine learning is **classification. **Given a set of time series with class labels, can we train a model to accurately predict the class of new time series?

Source: Univariate time series classification with sktime

_There are many algorithms dedicated to time series classification! _This means you don’t have wrangle your data into a scikit-learn classifier or to turn to deep learning to solve every time series classification task.

In this article, I will introduce five categories of time series classification algorithms with details of specific algorithms. These specific algorithms have been shown to perform better on average than a baseline classifier (KNN) over a large number of different datasets [1].

1. Distance-based (KNN with dynamic time warping)
2. Interval-based (TimeSeriesForest)
3. Dictionary-based (BOSS, cBOSS)
4. Frequency-based (RISE — like TimeSeriesForest but with other features)
5. Shapelet-based (Shapelet Transform Classifier)

I conclude with brief guidance on selecting an appropriate algorithm.

#machine-learning #time-series-analysis #supervised-learning #data-science #artificial-intelligence