Preface
1.TimeSeries:AnOverviewand aQuickHistory
The History of Time Series in Diverse Applications
Medicine as a Time Series Problem
Forecasting Weather
Forecasting Economic Growth
Astronomy
Time Series Analysis Takes Off
The Origins of Statistical Time Series Analysis
The Origins of Machine Learning Time Series Analysis
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2.FindingandWranglingTimeSeriesData
where to Find Time Series Data
Prepared Data Sets
Found Time Series
Retrofitting a Time Series Data Collection from a Collection of Tables
A Worked Example:Assembling a Time Series Data Collection
Constructing a Found Time Series
Timestamping Troubles
Whose Timestamp
Guesstimating Timestamps to Make Sense of Data
What’s a Meaningful Time Scale
Cleaning Your Data
Handling Missing Data
Upsampling and Downsampling
Smoothing Data
Seasonal Data
Time Zones
Preventing Lookahead
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3.ExploratoryDataAnalysisforTimeSeries
Familiar Methods
Plotting
Histograms
Scatter Plots
Time Series-Specific Exploratory Methods
Understanding Stationarity
Applying Window Functions
Understanding and Identifying Self-Correlation
Spurious Correlations
Some Useful Visualizations
lD Visualizations
2D Visualizations
3D Visualizations
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4.SimulatingTimeSeriesData
What’S Special About Simulating Time Series
Simulation Versus Forecasting
Simulations in Code
Doing the Work Yourself