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Modern Time Series Forecasting with Python

You're reading from   Modern Time Series Forecasting with Python Explore industry-ready time series forecasting using modern machine learning and deep learning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246802
Length 552 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manu Joseph Manu Joseph
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Getting Familiar with Time Series
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Time Series FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Acquiring and Processing Time Series Data 4. Chapter 3: Analyzing and Visualizing Time Series Data 5. Chapter 4: Setting a Strong Baseline Forecast 6. Part 2 – Machine Learning for Time Series
7. Chapter 5: Time Series Forecasting as Regression 8. Chapter 6: Feature Engineering for Time Series Forecasting 9. Chapter 7: Target Transformations for Time Series Forecasting 10. Chapter 8: Forecasting Time Series with Machine Learning Models 11. Chapter 9: Ensembling and Stacking 12. Chapter 10: Global Forecasting Models 13. Part 3 – Deep Learning for Time Series
14. Chapter 11: Introduction to Deep Learning 15. Chapter 12: Building Blocks of Deep Learning for Time Series 16. Chapter 13: Common Modeling Patterns for Time Series 17. Chapter 14: Attention and Transformers for Time Series 18. Chapter 15: Strategies for Global Deep Learning Forecasting Models 19. Chapter 16: Specialized Deep Learning Architectures for Forecasting 20. Part 4 – Mechanics of Forecasting
21. Chapter 17: Multi-Step Forecasting 22. Chapter 18: Evaluating Forecasts – Forecast Metrics 23. Chapter 19: Evaluating Forecasts – Validation Strategies 24. Index 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Saving and loading files to disk

The fully merged DataFrame in its compact form takes up only ~10 MB. But saving this file requires a little bit of engineering. If we try to save the file in CSV format, it will not work because of the way we have stored arrays in pandas columns (since the data is in its compact form). We can save it in pickle or parquet format, or any of the binary forms of file storage. This can work, depending on the size of the RAM available in our machines. Although the fully merged DataFrame is just ~10 MB, saving it in pickle format will make the size explode to ~15 GB.

What we can do is save this as a text file while making a few tweaks to accommodate the column names, column types, and other metadata that is required to read the file back into memory. The resulting file size on disk still comes out to ~15 GB but since we are doing it as an I/O operation, we are not keeping all that data in our memory. We call this the time series (.ts) format. The functions...

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