What is FB Prophet?

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.

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What is cross validation in prophet?

Prophet includes functionality for time series cross validation to measure forecast error using historical data . This is done by selecting cutoff points in the history, and for each of them fitting the model using data only up to that cutoff point. We can then compare the forecasted values to the actual values.

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