Week 12

This week's lab is meant to introduce you to the idea of time series: curve fitting, time series data, and forecasting with Prophet. In particular, we'll cover the following:

• Fitting Curves
• Smoothing
• Facebook Prophet

Note: The prophet-diagnostics.ipynb lab is completely optional. Take a look if you like, but don't worry if you'd rather stick to the basics!

setup

(As of January 2026)

1. Fork this repository.
2. Clone this repository using VS Code or using GitHub.
3. See the environment.yml file. Create this environment locally using conda env create -f environment.yml and load it, or use an existing environment that already has these packages installed.
4. Edit your repository, commit as you go, and push your changes to your fork.