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“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” —W. Edwards Deming
In a world full of data, it is very easy for us to churn out models with the latest algorithm, or best publicized (don’t use Prophet), without giving much thought to the data that goes in. Just get the data in the right format and you are ready to go, with .fit and .predict! This is an easy trap to fall into when you are under pressure to provide sales team members with predictions, but ultimately leads to poor models and overconfidence in the data and forecasts built upon them. To make useful predictions, we must have a strong understanding of our data. We need to understand how data is formed and structured, and recognize the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the information we are using to build our models. This highlights the need for exploratory data analysis (EDA). EDA may seem like a laborious task, but in reality, it’s...