Session 22 - (4/10)

Icebreaker question

• What is a good icebreaker question?
  • What is a good icebreaker question? (Initiate infinite loop)
  • If you were in an infinite-loop movie what would be your wake-up song?
  • If it were not fatal would you rather be shot or stabbed?
  • What's your favorite herb?
  • What's your favorite joke?
  • What's your favorite scent and does it bring up a specific memory?
  • If you could use a time machine would you go to future or past?
  • If you were an animal what would you be?
  • Would you rather be a cat or a dog?
  • How many mallards could you fight?
  • If you were bitten by a zombie would you tell people or would you hope you were special?

Learning objectives

In this session we will learn about time series analysis in python. By the end of this session you will be more familiar with the following topics:

• Components of time series: Trend, Seasonality, and Residuals
• How time series data can be used to infer underlying processes, and to predict future states
• Additive and multiplicative time series decomposition
• Time series forecasting with ARIMA models

Review and Discussion

N/A

In class exercises

• Time series analysis in python

Assignments

• Homework is to work on your projects.

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