AI engineering glossary · Time series recsys
What is prophet?
Prophet: An open-source forecasting library that fits an additive model of trend, several seasonalities and holiday effects, and is designed to be easy to use with missing data and changepoints. It is popular for business series with strong calendar patterns.
Prophet: an example
Model daily orders with weekly and yearly seasonality and a list of Indian festival dates as holidays.
Related terms
More Time series recsys terms
- Quantile forecast
- Random walk
- Ranking stage
- RankNet
- Re-ranking stage
- Recommender system
- Recursive forecasting
- Rolling window feature
Where you learn it
Prophet is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.