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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

Machine learning with time-series

In this section, I'll give an introduction to applications and the main categories of machine learning with time-series.

Machine learning approaches for time-series are crucial in domains such as economics, medicine, meteorology, demography, and many others. Time-Series datasets are ubiquitous and occur in domains as diverse as healthcare, economics, social sciences, Internet-of-Things applications, operations management, digital marketing, cloud infrastructure, the simulation of robotic systems, and others. These datasets are of immense practical importance, as they can be leveraged to forecast and predict the detection of anomalies more effectively, thereby supporting decision making.

The technical applications within machine learning for time-series abound in techniques. A few applications are as follows:

  • Curve fitting
  • Regression
  • Classification
  • Forecasting
  • Segmentation/clustering
  • Anomaly detection...