Is Prophet Good for forecasting?

What is Facebook Prophet and how does it work? 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.

One major advantage with Prophet is that it does not require much prior knowledge of forecasting time series data as it can automatically find seasonal trends with a set of data and offers easy to understand parameters.

Prophet has a built-in helper function make_future_dataframe to create a dataframe of future dates . The make_future_dataframe function lets you specify the frequency and number of periods you would like to forecast into the future. By default, the frequency is set to days.