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Deep Learning for Time Series Cookbook

By : Vitor Cerqueira, Luís Roque
Book Image

Deep Learning for Time Series Cookbook

By: Vitor Cerqueira, Luís Roque

Overview of this book

Most organizations exhibit a time-dependent structure in their processes, including fields such as finance. By leveraging time series analysis and forecasting, these organizations can make informed decisions and optimize their performance. Accurate forecasts help reduce uncertainty and enable better planning of operations. Unlike traditional approaches to forecasting, deep learning can process large amounts of data and help derive complex patterns. Despite its increasing relevance, getting the most out of deep learning requires significant technical expertise. This book guides you through applying deep learning to time series data with the help of easy-to-follow code recipes. You’ll cover time series problems, such as forecasting, anomaly detection, and classification. This deep learning book will also show you how to solve these problems using different deep neural network architectures, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or transformers. As you progress, you’ll use PyTorch, a popular deep learning framework based on Python to build production-ready prediction solutions. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to solve different time series tasks with deep learning using the PyTorch ecosystem.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Global forecasting models for seasonal time series

This recipe shows how to extend a data module to include extra explanatory variables in a TimeSeriesDataSet class and a DataModule class. We’ll use a particular case about seasonal time series.

Getting ready

We load the dataset that we used in the previous recipe:

N_LAGS = 7
HORIZON = 7
from gluonts.dataset.repository.datasets import get_dataset
dataset = get_dataset('nn5_daily_without_missing', regenerate=False)

This dataset contains time series with a daily granularity. Here, we’ll model weekly seasonality using the Fourier series. Unlike what we did in the previous chapter (in the Handling seasonality: seasonal dummies and Fourier series recipe), we’ll learn how to include these features using the TimeSeriesDataSet framework.

How to do it…

Here’s the updated DataModule that includes the Fourier series. We only describe part of the setup() method for brevity. The remaining...