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Published inMay 2019
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ISBN-139781788629157
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Rami Krispin
Rami Krispin
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Rami Krispin

Rami Krispin is a data scientist at a major Silicon Valley company, where he focuses on time series analysis and forecasting. In his free time, he also develops open source tools and is the author of several R packages, including the TSstudio package for time series analysis and forecasting applications. Rami holds an MA in Applied Economics and an MS in actuarial mathematics from the University of MichiganAnn Arbor.
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Forecasting monthly vehicle sales in the US – a case study

In this chapter, we will focus on forecasting the total monthly vehicle sales in the US in the next 12 months with ML methods. The total monthly vehicle sales in the US series is available in the TSstudio package:

library(TSstudio)

data(USVSales)

Before we start preparing the series and create new features, we will conduct a short exploratory analysis of the series in order to identify the main characteristics of the series.

Exploratory analysis of the USVSales series

In this section, we will focus on exploring and learning about the main characteristics of the series. These insights will be used to build new features as inputs for the ML model. The exploratory...

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Published in: May 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788629157

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Rami Krispin

Rami Krispin is a data scientist at a major Silicon Valley company, where he focuses on time series analysis and forecasting. In his free time, he also develops open source tools and is the author of several R packages, including the TSstudio package for time series analysis and forecasting applications. Rami holds an MA in Applied Economics and an MS in actuarial mathematics from the University of MichiganAnn Arbor.
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