Machine Learning for Time Series Forecasting with Python

About the Author

Francesca Lazzeri, PhD, is an experienced scientist and machine learning practitioner with over a decade of both academic and industry experience. She currently leads an international team of cloud AI advocates and developers at Microsoft, managing a large portfolio of customers and building intelligent automated solutions on the cloud.

Francesca is an expert in big data technology innovations and the applications of machine learning–based solutions to real-world problems. Her work is unified by the twin goals of making better sense of microeconomic data and using those insights to optimize firm decision making. Her research has spanned the areas of machine learning, statistical modeling, and time series econometrics and forecasting as well as a range of industries—energy, oil and gas, retail, aerospace, healthcare, and professional services.

Before joining Microsoft, she was a research fellow at Harvard University in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Francesca periodically teaches applied analytics and machine learning classes at universities and research institutions around the world. You can find her on Twitter @frlazzeri.