The input to Prophet is always a dataframe with two columns: ds and y . The ds (datestamp) column should be of a format expected by Pandas, ideally YYYY-MM-DD for a date or YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS for a timestamp. The y column must be numeric, and represents the measurement we wish to forecast.
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Prophet is an additive regression model with a piecewise linear or logistic growth curve trend . It includes a yearly seasonal component modeled using Fourier series and a weekly seasonal component modeled using dummy variables.
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