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Hands-On Time Series Analysis with R

By : Rami Krispin
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Hands-On Time Series Analysis with R

By: Rami Krispin

Overview of this book

Time-series analysis is the art of extracting meaningful insights from, and revealing patterns in, time-series data using statistical and data visualization approaches. These insights and patterns can then be utilized to explore past events and forecast future values in the series. This book explores the basics of time-series analysis with R and lays the foundation you need to build forecasting models. You will learn how to preprocess raw time-series data and clean and manipulate data with packages such as stats, lubridate, xts, and zoo. You will analyze data using both descriptive statistics and rich data visualization tools in R including the TSstudio, plotly, and ggplot2 packages. The book then delves into traditional forecasting models such as time-series linear regression, exponential smoothing (Holt, Holt-Winter, and more) and Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models with the stats and forecast packages. You'll also work on advanced time-series regression models with machine learning algorithms such as random forest and Gradient Boosting Machine using the h2o package. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills necessary for exploring your data, identifying patterns, and building a forecasting model using various traditional and machine learning methods.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Forecasting with Machine Learning Models

In Chapter 9, Forecasting with Linear Regression, we saw how a basic regression model could utilize some simple steps to create a robust time series forecast. The use of a linear regression model for time series forecasting can be easily generalized to other regression approaches, in particular, machine learning-based regressions. In this chapter, we will focus on the use of machine learning models for time series forecasting using the h2o package. This chapter requires some basic knowledge of the training and tuning process of machine learning models.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to the h2o package and its functionality
  • Feature engineering of time series data
  • Forecasting with the Random Forest model
  • Forecasting with the gradient boosting machine learning model
  • Forecasting with the automate machine...