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Machine Learning for Time-Series with Python

By : Ben Auffarth
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Machine Learning for Time-Series with Python

By: Ben Auffarth

Overview of this book

The Python time-series ecosystem is huge and often quite hard to get a good grasp on, especially for time-series since there are so many new libraries and new models. This book aims to deepen your understanding of time series by providing a comprehensive overview of popular Python time-series packages and help you build better predictive systems. Machine Learning for Time-Series with Python starts by re-introducing the basics of time series and then builds your understanding of traditional autoregressive models as well as modern non-parametric models. By observing practical examples and the theory behind them, you will become confident with loading time-series datasets from any source, deep learning models like recurrent neural networks and causal convolutional network models, and gradient boosting with feature engineering. This book will also guide you in matching the right model to the right problem by explaining the theory behind several useful models. You’ll also have a look at real-world case studies covering weather, traffic, biking, and stock market data. By the end of this book, you should feel at home with effectively analyzing and applying machine learning methods to time-series.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Multivariate Forecasting

As you'll have picked up by now if you've been paying attention to this book, the field of time-series has made lots of advances within the last decade. Many extensions and new techniques have popped up for applying machine learning to time-series. In each chapter, we've covered lots of different issues around forecasting, anomaly and drift detection, regression and classification, and approaches including traditional approaches, machine learning with gradient boosting and others, reinforcement learning, online learning, deep learning, and probabilistic models.

In this chapter, we'll put some of this into practice in more depth. We've covered mostly univariate time-series so far, but in this chapter, we'll go through an application of forecasting to energy demand. With ongoing energy or supply crises in different parts of the world, this is a very timely subject. We'll work with a multivariate time-series, and we&apos...