John Mount
Win-Vector Principal Consultant and Trainer John Mount has a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon and over 15 years of applied experience in biotech research, online advertising, price optimization and finance. He is one of the authors of the popular book "Practical Data Science with R", Manning, 2020 (now in its second edition).
Sessions
This talk will explain how to solve business forecasting problems using time series methods. Time series forecasting remains a specialty topic. Because of this you really want to use a package tuned for your use case and specialized to deal with the difficulties inherent in time series forecasting. I will share a simplified problem notation that helps you select between time series packages in R and Python.