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Is Facebook’s “Prophet” the Time-Series Messiah, or Just a Very Naughty Boy?

PeterCotton
July 2, 2021 at 3:00 pmOctober 29, 2021 at 4:31 am

A debate rages on page one of Hacker News about the merits of the world’s most downloaded time-series library. Facebook’s Prophet package aims to provide a simple, automated approach… Read More »Is Facebook’s “Prophet” the Time-Series Messiah, or Just a Very Naughty Boy?

A Fundamental Theorem for Epidemiology

PeterCotton
May 28, 2020 at 1:30 am

The work of an Italian mathematician in the 1930s may hold the key to epidemic modeling. That’s because models that try to replicate reality in… Read More »A Fundamental Theorem for Epidemiology