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"# Time Series Forecasting With Prophet"
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"[Prophet](https://facebookincubator.github.io/prophet/) is an open source forecasting tool built by Facebook. It can be used for time series modeling and forcasting trends into the future. Prophet is interesting because it's both sophisticated and quite easy to use, so it's possible to generate very good forecasts with relatively little effort or domain knowledge in time series analysis.\n",
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"There are a few requirements you'll need to meet in order to use the library. It uses PyStan to do all of its inference, so PyStan has to be installed. PyStan has its own dependencies, including a C++ compiler. Python 3 also appears to be a requirement. Full installation instrutions are [here](https://facebookincubator.github.io/prophet/docs/installation.html).\n",
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"Let's take a quick tour through Prophet's capabilities. We can start by reading in some sample time series data. In this case we're using Wikipedia page hits for Peyton Manning, which is the data set that Facebook collected for the library's example code."
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