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Practical Predictive Analytics

You're reading from   Practical Predictive Analytics Analyse current and historical data to predict future trends using R, Spark, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785886188
Length 576 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ralph Winters Ralph Winters
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Predictive Analytics 2. The Modeling Process FREE CHAPTER 3. Inputting and Exploring Data 4. Introduction to Regression Algorithms 5. Introduction to Decision Trees, Clustering, and SVM 6. Using Survival Analysis to Predict and Analyze Customer Churn 7. Using Market Basket Analysis as a Recommender Engine 8. Exploring Health Care Enrollment Data as a Time Series 9. Introduction to Spark Using R 10. Exploring Large Datasets Using Spark 11. Spark Machine Learning - Regression and Cluster Models 12. Spark Models – Rule-Based Learning

Time series data


Time series data is usually a set of ordered data collected over equally spaced intervals. Time series data occurs in most business and scientific disciplines, and the data is closely tied to the concept of forecasting, which uses previously measured data points to predict future data points based upon a specific statistical model.

Time series data differs from the kind of data that we have been looking at previously; because it is a set of ordered data points, it can contain components such as trend, seasonality, and autocorrelation, which have little meaning in other types of analysis, such as "Cross-sectional" analysis, which looks at data collected at a static point in time.

Usually, time series data is collected in equally spaced intervals, such as days, weeks, quarters, or years, but that is not always the case. Measurement of events such as natural disasters is a prime example. In some cases, you can transform uneven data into equally spaced data. In other cases, you...

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