Facebook releases Prophet, its free forecasting tools, for Python and R

Facebook has open-sourced its Prophet forecasting tool, designed «to make it easier for experts and non-experts to make high-quality forecasts,» according to a blog post by Sean J. Taylor and Ben Letham in the company’s research team. «Forecasts are customizable in ways that are intuitive to non-experts,» they wrote. The code is available on GitHub…

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