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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)

Using Prophet for probabilistic forecasting

In this recipe, we’ll show how to use Prophet for probabilistic forecasting.

Getting ready

Prophet is a tool developed by Facebook for forecasting time series data. It’s particularly adept at handling data with strong seasonal patterns and irregular events such as holidays. To get started with Prophet, we need to prepare our data and environment.

The process begins with loading and preprocessing the time series data so that it fits the format Prophet requires. Each time series in Prophet must have two columns – ds (the timestamp) and y (the value we wish to predict):

import pandas as pd
from prophet import Prophet
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
mvtseries = pd.read_csv(
"assets/daily_multivariate_timeseries.csv",
parse_dates=["datetime"],
)
mvtseries['ds'] = mvtseries['datetime...