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Machine Learning for Time-Series with Python - Second Edition

By : Ben Auffarth
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Machine Learning for Time-Series with Python - Second Edition

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By: Ben Auffarth

Overview of this book

The Python time-series ecosystem is a huge and challenging topic to tackle, especially for time series since there are so many new libraries and models. Machine Learning for Time Series, Second Edition, aims to deepen your understanding of time series by providing a comprehensive overview of popular Python time-series packages and helping you build better predictive systems. This fully updated second edition starts by re-introducing the basics of time series and then helps you get to grips with traditional autoregressive models as well as modern non-parametric models. By observing practical examples and the theory behind them, you will gain a deeper understanding of loading time-series datasets from any source and a variety of models, such as deep learning recurrent neural networks, causal convolutional network models, and gradient boosting with feature engineering. This book will also help you choose the right model for the right problem by explaining the theory behind several useful models. New updates include a chapter on forecasting and extracting signals on financial markets and case studies with relevant examples from operations management, digital marketing, and healthcare. 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 (3 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the Python ecosystem for time series. We went through the process of setting up a Python environment. We’ve introduced important libraries and modules such as datetime and pandas, and different ways of loading and creating time series data. We also showed plotting functionality with Matplotlib and Seaborn.