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darts
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unit8co / darts

darts

A python library for user-friendly forecasting and anomaly detection on time series.

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12Mentions
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A python library for user-friendly forecasting and anomaly detection on time series.

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Observed mentions: 2021-06-22 07:37:15 UTC to 2024-03-05 09:01:29 UTC.

02462021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024

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Great, another open source tool purporting to solve time series analysis in an "automated way" that my manager will link me tomorrow and ask me to review (as an aside, attempting automated statistics of any kind is incredibly dangerous and misguided, but especially so for time series). Why should I use this over Darts[1] or just Statsmodels[2], if I need more lower level access and diagnostics? Both of these are far more established. I dislike that Facebook Prophet was chosen as a benchmark; it's not a difficult benchmark to beat for the majority of time series use cases. It signifies to me that this project might targeting cargo cult data science. Prophet is not particularly good at non-daily timeseries and non-seasonal timeseries. The paper itself admits this[3]. Moreover, it's just a generalized additive model that incorporates holiday
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s. I don't intend to sound demeaning here, really. But I'm trying to understand what the point is. This doesn't look like someone's weekend project, but we already have plenty of established projects which tackle this effectively. There are three major markets for time series work: 1. You're an analyst with a lot of domain knowledge who needs to analyze daily, seasonal data but you don't have a strong statistical or engineering background. This person should probably just choose Prophet (again, the developers of Prophet explicitly acknowledge that it's designed for scalable good enough models by non-stats people, not for the best model given the data). 2. You're a data scientist with a good statistical background and you need to produce forecasts. You can afford to dig into what the model is doing and select a model based on a series of diagnostics and knowledge about the data itself. This person should probably choose a more complete suite, like Darts. The important thing here is developing good models quickly while being able to do more than just press a button. 3. You're a data scientist (or statistician) which a very strong statistical background who needs to produce the best model they can for answering a specific question. This person is probably going to use R, Stan, Statsmodels or PyMC to come up with something bespoke. They may or may not need to systematize it, but they don't need to produce quantity over quality. How does this thing improve the state of the art for any of these markets? -- 1 https://github.com/unit8co/darts 2 https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/index.html 3 https://peerj.com/preprints/3190/
In Automated Time Series Processing and Forecasting
What do you mean by "optional"?. You are including it [2] [3] [4] as one of the options (not re-implementation of the original paper [1]) and it is one of the dependencies [4] (Prophet [5] is an open-source library built by facebook research). I think we should distinguish between science/open-source and policies when we mention open-source projects. *References*: [1]: https://facebook.github.io/prophet/#:~:text=Prophet%20is%20a.... [2]: https://github.com/unit8co/darts/blob/master/darts/models/pr... [3]: https://github.com/unit8co/darts/blob/master/setup.py#L12 [4]: https://github.com/unit8co/darts/blob/master/requirements/pr... [5]: https://github.com/facebook/prophet
In Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series
For those interested in time series library, we are developing Darts [1], which focuses on making it easy & straightforward to build and use forecasting models. Out of the box it contains traditional models (such as ARIMA) as well as recent deep learning ones (like N-Beats). It also allows to easily train models on multiple time series (potentially scaling to large datasets), as well as on multivariate series (i.e., series made of multiple dimensions). It will soon support probabilistic forecasts as well. [1] https://github.com/unit8co/darts/
In Kats: One stop shop for time series analysis in Python

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