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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)

Creating prediction intervals using conformal prediction

In this recipe, we’ll explore how to create prediction intervals. Prediction intervals describe the range of values within which future observations will likely fall with some confidence level. The greater the confidence required, the larger the intervals will be.

In practice, the model predicts not just a single point but a distribution for future observations. Various techniques exist to construct these intervals, including parametric methods that assume a specific distribution of errors and non-parametric methods that use empirical data to estimate intervals.

We’ll resort to a conformal prediction approach, which is increasingly popular among data science practitioners.

Getting ready

We’ll build prediction intervals for an ARIMA model, which is a popular forecasting approach. Yet, conformal prediction is agnostic to the underlying method and can be applied to other forecasting methods.

Let...