May 2019
Beginner
528 pages
29h 51m
English
We’ve looked at sequences, such as lists, tuples and arrays. In this section, we’ll discuss time series, which are sequences of values (called observations) associated with points in time. Some examples are daily closing stock prices, hourly temperature readings, the changing positions of a plane in flight, annual crop yields and quarterly company profits. Perhaps the ultimate time series is the stream of time-stamped tweets coming from Twitter users worldwide. In the “Data Mining Twitter” chapter, we’ll study Twitter data in depth.
In this section, we’ll use a technique called simple linear regression to make predictions from time series data. We’ll use the 1895 through 2018 ...
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