The future prices of avocados was predicted in this project with Facebook Prophet where Prophet is an opensource tool which is used for series forecasting The expected outcome was produced.
Date: The date of the observation
AveragePrice: the average price of a single avocado
type: conventional or organic
year: the year
Region: the city or region of the observation
Total Volume: Total number of avocados sold
4046: Total number of avocados with PLU 4046 sold
4225: Total number of avocados with PLU 4225 sold
4770: Total number of avocados with PLU 4770 sold
Opensource tool developed by Facebook core DataScience team.
It is a procedure for forecasting time series data based on an additive model where non-linear trends are fit with yearly,weekly and daily seasonality.
It can be used for prediction of stock prices , product sales etc.
For additional information refer :
https://research.fb.com/prophet-forecasting-at-scale/
https://facebook.github.io/prophet/docs/quick_start.html