Facebook Prophet forecasting

Forecasting with Facebook Prophet: A Simple, Practical Guide

This article is the companion piece to Intelevo Episode 89. Watch the full video walkthrough on the Intelevo YouTube channel for the live demo, then use this article to review the ideas and code at your own pace. Forecasting sounds intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. In this guide, you’ll learn Facebook Prophet forecasting

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time series decomposition and stationarity

Time Series Decomposition and Stationarity

Companion article for Episode 86 of the Intelevo YouTube channel Every time series looks messy at first glance. A sales chart zigzags. A temperature graph climbs, dips, and climbs again. But underneath that mess, a simple structure hides. This article breaks that structure apart, piece by piece. We cover two ideas today: decomposition and stationarity.

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Time series data

Introduction to Time Series Data: A Simple, Complete Guide

Every dataset you have used so far probably let you shuffle the rows. Nothing broke. The model still worked. That comfort ends today. This article accompanies Episode 85 of the Intelevo Machine Learning series on YouTube. Watch the video first for the full walkthrough, then use this article as your reference notes. Together, they give

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Linear Discriminant Analysis

Linear Discriminant Analysis: The Simplest Guide You’ll Ever Read

This article is the companion piece to Episode 82 of the Intelevo YouTube series. Watch the full video walkthrough first, then use this article to review the code, revisit the math, and take notes at your own pace. The video covers the intuition. This post covers the details. So what is Linear Discriminant Analysis, really?

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t-SNE and UMAP for visualization

t-SNE and UMAP for Visualization: See the Shape PCA Can’t Show You

Picture a crowded room full of people from ten different friend groups. Now picture trying to describe that room using only a single photograph. You would capture some of the picture. However, you would lose most of the friendships, the little clusters, and the quiet corners where similar people gathered together. That is exactly what

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Principal Component Analysis

Principal Component Analysis: A Simple Guide to Compressing Your Features

You collected forty features for your model. Then you added ten more. Now your dataset feels bloated, and half those columns just repeat what the others already say. This is exactly where Principal Component Analysis earns its place in your toolkit. This article is the companion piece to Episode 80 of the Intelevo Machine Learning

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