Facebook AI

Well, this magic is done using deep neural networks that analyze your age, gender, location, page likes, interests, and even your mobile data to profile you into select categories and then show you ads specifically targeted towards these categories. Facebook also partners with different data collection companies like …

Prophet is a procedure for forecasting time series data based on an additive model where non-linear trends are fit with yearly, weekly, and daily seasonality, plus holiday effects . It works best with time series that have strong seasonal effects and several seasons of historical data.

Facebook Prophet is an open-source algorithm for generating time-series models that uses a few old ideas with some new twists. It is particularly good at modeling time series that have multiple seasonalities and doesn’t face some of the above drawbacks of other algorithms.