abercus/ds30_3

Data Science in 30 Minutes #3 - Holt-Winters and exponential smoothing

Data Science in 30 Minutes: Exponential Smoothing and Holt-Winters

To view the talk that goes along with this repo, click [here] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqSFTaFQxKo).

Installation Instructions

Using Anaconda,

conda create --name ds30_3 --file environment.yml

This should be all you need to do to follow along in the ds30_hw_examples.ipynb file - just start jupyter notebook and open the file in your browser.

Credits

This talk was created by Isaiah Yoo. Isaiah is a data scientist/software engineer at Truveris, which is the leading authority on prescription benefits. Prior to this he was a Fellow at [The Data Incubator] (https://www.thedataincubator.com/) during the [Winter 2015 cohort] (http://blog.thedataincubator.com/2015/04/alumni-spotlight-isaiah-yoo-healthcare-analytics-by-way-of-string-theory-physics/). He received his PhD in theoretical physics from University of Southern California.

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