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Tag: Forecasting

xgboost time series forecast in R

xgboost, or Extreme Gradient Boosting is a very convenient algorithm that can be used to solve regression and classification problems. You can check may previous post to learn more about it. It turns out we can also benefit from xgboost while doing time series predictions.

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Data forecasting

Data forecasting is a process of estimating the future based on historical values. It is described by time series, which is simply a series of time dependent data points. We usually forecast different costs or sales over time. We can try to predict weather conditions or model stock changes. Basically look at any process that can be described as time dependent with certain time interval (hourly, daily, monthly…).

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