You're reading from Time Series Analysis with Python Cookbook Practical recipes for exploratory data analysis, data preparation, forecasting, and model evaluation

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2025

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781805124283

Length 98 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Tarek A. Atwan

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

1. Time Series Analysis with Python Cookbook, Second Edition: Practical recipes for exploratory data analysis, data preparation, forecasting, and model evaluation FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Time Series Analysis

3. Reading Time Series Data from Files

4. Reading Time Series Data from Databases

5. Persisting Time Series Data to Files

6. Persisting Time Series Data to Databases

7. Working with Date and Time in Python

8. Handling Missing Data

9. Outlier Detection Using Statistical Methods

10. Exploratory Data Analysis and Diagnosis

11. Building Univariate Time Series Models Using Statistical Methods

12. Additional Statistical Modeling Techniques for Time Series

13. Outlier Detection Using Unsupervised Machine Learning

Working with custom business days

Companies have different working days worldwide, influenced by the region or territory they belong to. For example, when working with time-series data and depending on the analysis you need to make, knowing whether certain transactions fall on a workday or weekend can make a difference. For example, suppose you are doing anomaly detection, and you know that certain types of activities can only be done during working hours. In that case, any activities beyond these boundaries may trigger some further analysis.

In this recipe, you will see how you can customize an offset to fit your requirements when doing an analysis that depends on defined business days and non-business days.

How to do it…

In this recipe, you will create custom business days and holidays for a company headquartered in Amman, Jordan. In Jordan, the working week is from Sunday to Thursday, whereas Friday and Saturday are the 2-day weekend. Additionally, their National Day (a holiday...