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Modern Time Series Forecasting with Python

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246802
Pages 552 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Manu Joseph Manu Joseph
Profile icon Manu Joseph

Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1 – Getting Familiar with Time Series
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Time Series 3. Chapter 2: Acquiring and Processing Time Series Data 4. Chapter 3: Analyzing and Visualizing Time Series Data 5. Chapter 4: Setting a Strong Baseline Forecast 6. Part 2 – Machine Learning for Time Series
7. Chapter 5: Time Series Forecasting as Regression 8. Chapter 6: Feature Engineering for Time Series Forecasting 9. Chapter 7: Target Transformations for Time Series Forecasting 10. Chapter 8: Forecasting Time Series with Machine Learning Models 11. Chapter 9: Ensembling and Stacking 12. Chapter 10: Global Forecasting Models 13. Part 3 – Deep Learning for Time Series
14. Chapter 11: Introduction to Deep Learning 15. Chapter 12: Building Blocks of Deep Learning for Time Series 16. Chapter 13: Common Modeling Patterns for Time Series 17. Chapter 14: Attention and Transformers for Time Series 18. Chapter 15: Strategies for Global Deep Learning Forecasting Models 19. Chapter 16: Specialized Deep Learning Architectures for Forecasting 20. Part 4 – Mechanics of Forecasting
21. Chapter 17: Multi-Step Forecasting 22. Chapter 18: Evaluating Forecasts – Forecast Metrics 23. Chapter 19: Evaluating Forecasts – Validation Strategies 24. Index 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Global Forecasting Models

In previous chapters, we saw how we can use modern machine learning models on time series forecasting problems, essentially replacing traditional models such as ARIMA or exponential smoothing. However, before now, we were looking at the different time series in any dataset (such as households in the London Smart Meters dataset) in isolation, just as the traditional models did.

However, we will now explore a different paradigm of modeling where we use a single machine learning model to forecast a bunch of time series together. As we will learn in the chapter, this paradigm brings many benefits with it, from the perspective of both computation and accuracy.

In this chapter, we will be covering these main topics:

  • Why Global Forecasting Models (GFMs)?
  • Creating GFMs
  • Strategies to improve GFMs
  • Bonus – interpretability
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