FORECASTING

Prophet Forecasting

Facebook Prophet with configurable growth models, multiple seasonality patterns, holiday effects, and robust date parsing.

What Makes This Practical

Multiple Seasonalities

Configurable yearly, weekly, daily patterns with additive or multiplicative modes.

Flexible Growth Models

Linear, logistic, or flat growth with adjustable changepoint flexibility.

Holiday Effects

Custom holiday definitions with configurable windows before/after each event.

What You Need to Provide

Time series with flexible column naming

Provide time_column and value_column (automatically converted to ds and y). Supports multiple date formats with intelligent parsing.

Includes component decomposition (trend, seasonalities, holidays), changepoint detection, residual analysis with Q-Q plots, and configurable prior scales for all components.

Time Series Schema / ds + y (+ regressors)

Quick Specs

Growthlinear/logistic/flat
Seasonalityadditive/multiplicative
Prior ScalesConfigurable flexibility
MCMCOptional Bayesian

How We Forecast

From components to calibrated predictions

1

Parse & Convert

Robust date parsing with 12+ format attempts; convert to Prophet's ds/y format.

2

Configure & Fit

Set growth model, seasonality modes, prior scales; add regressors if specified.

3

Decompose & Analyze

Extract components, calculate MAE/RMSE/MAPE, generate residual diagnostics.

Why This Analysis Matters

Facebook Prophet with enterprise-grade flexibility—handles missing data, outliers, and complex seasonal patterns automatically.

The implementation provides configurable prior scales for trend changepoints, seasonality strength, and holiday effects. Supports additional regressors with automatic future value imputation (uses mean of last 30 days). Includes comprehensive residual analysis, actual vs predicted plots, and simplified seasonal pattern visualizations for yearly, weekly, and daily effects.

Note: Handles 12+ date formats automatically. For regressors in forecast period, uses mean of last 30 historical values. MCMC sampling optional for uncertainty quantification.

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